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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics ; 15Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110447439
  • 9783110447811
  • 9783110449075
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.915 23
LOC classification:
  • PN56 .S96 2015eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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.
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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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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.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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