TY - BOOK AU - Ahrens,Rüdiger AU - Dolo,Eva AU - González,John Morán AU - Hartmann,Johanna AU - McGrath,Laura B. AU - Müller,Timo AU - O'Donnell,Patrick AU - O’Donnell,Patrick AU - Rachman,Stephen AU - Schliephake,Christopher AU - Stierstorfer,Klaus AU - Ziegler,Heide TI - Symbolism 15: [Special Focus – Headnotes, Footnotes, Endnotes] T2 - Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics , SN - 9783110447439 AV - PN56 .S96 2015eb U1 - 809.915 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter KW - Literary Studies KW - Anglo-American Literature KW - 19th Century KW - 20th Century KW - Anglo-American Literature, general KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Literary Genres and Media KW - Genre Studies, general KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General KW - bisacsh KW - American literature KW - Footnotes KW - intertextuality KW - paratexts N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 shall attempt to find the reasons for this astonishing development. In our first (diachronic) section we shall explore such texts as might have fostered the present boom, from fictions by Edgar Allan Poe to Vladimir Nabokov to Mark Z. Danielewski. The second (synchronic) section, will concentrate on paratexts by David Foster Wallace, perhaps the “father” of the post-postmodern footnote, as well as those to be found in novels by Bennett Sims, Jennifer Egan and Junot Diaz, among others. It appears that, while paratexts definitely point to a high degree of self-reflexivity in the author, they equally draw attention to the textual and authorial functions of the works in which they exist. They can thus cause a reflection on the boundaries between genres like fiction, faction, and autobiography, as well as serving to highlight a host of pedagogical and social concerns that exist in the interstices between fiction and reality UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110449075 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110449075 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110449075/original ER -