Symbolism 15 : : [Special Focus – Headnotes, Footnotes, Endnotes] /

Symbolism 15 : : [Special Focus – Headnotes, Footnotes, Endnotes] / / ed. by Rüdiger Ahrens, Klaus Stierstorfer.

While paratexts – among them headnotes, footnotes, or endnotes – have never been absent from American literature, the last two decades have seen an explosion of the phenomenon, including (mock) scholarly footnotes, to an extent that they seem to take over the text itself. In this Special Focus we sh...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
HerausgeberIn:
Ahrens, Rüdiger,
Stierstorfer, Klaus,
MitwirkendeR:
Dolo, Eva,
González, John Morán,
Hartmann, Johanna,
McGrath, Laura B.,
Müller, Timo,
O'Donnell, Patrick,
O’Donnell, Patrick,
Rachman, Stephen,
Schliephake, Christopher,
Ziegler, Heide,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics , 15
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword from the Editors
  • Table of Contents
  • Special Focus: Headnotes, Footnotes, Endnotes. Reflections on the Margins of the Literary Text
  • Introduction: Headnotes, Footnotes, Endnotes. Reflections on the Margins of the Literary Text
  • I. Undermining Authority, Power, and Dominance
  • Poe, Annotation, and the Other
  • Headnotes and Endnotes in the African American Sonnet
  • Páginas en blanco, Footnotes, and the Authority of the Archive in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • II. Diluting Mainstream Constraints
  • Too Much Fun – Endnotes in Infinite Jest
  • Paratextualized Forms of Fictional Self-Narration: Footnotes, Headnotes and Endnotes in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad
  • “Only a Book”: Reading the Footnotes in House of Leaves
  • III. Creating Another Voice for the Self
  • The Novel as Note: Pale Fire and its Aftermath
  • Headnotes, Footnotes, Subliminal Notes in “Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky” and The Kraus Project
  • General Section
  • The Visible Remainder: Curtis White’s Memories of My Father Watching TV
  • Classicism, Cultural Mobility, Hybridity, and the Transnational Imagination in the Works of Reginald Shepherd
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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