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Nuttall makes useful incidental points about each text he discusses

Nuttall makes useful incidental points about each text he discusses. Ranging from Greek and Roman epic to the modern novel via Dante, Milton, Wordsworth, Sterne and Dickens, A. D. Nuttall has written an ambitious and original book which will be of interest to a wide variety of readers. See all Product description.

Nuttall first taught at Sussex University where he was successively lecturer, reader and . Openings: Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the Novel.

Nuttall first taught at Sussex University where he was successively lecturer, reader and professor of English and where his students included the philosopher A. C. Grayling and the critic and biographer Robert Fraser. After a tumultuous period as pro-vice chancellor at Sussex, he moved on to New College, Oxford, in 1984, eventually being elected to an Oxford chair. To him he dedicated his book The Alternative Trinity, a study of the Gnostic tradition in English literature through Marlowe and Milton to William Blake, a poet to whom both brothers had been attracted in their youth, if in rather different ways.

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Ranging from Greek and Roman epic to the modern novel via Dante, Milton, Wordsworth, Sterne andDickens, A.

Ranging from Greek and Roman epic to the modern novel via Dante, Milton, Wordsworth, Sterne andDickens, A. This book argues that history is full of real beginnings but that poets and novelists are indeed free to begin their stories wherever they like.

Nuttall is among the most erudite contemporary academic literary critics, at ease with the Classics, much given to philosophy. He is also disconcertingly bold and curious, and his latest book, like some of its predecessors, is as odd as it is learned. He is also disconcertingly bold and curious, and his latest book, like some of its predecessors, is as odd as it is learned

Ranging from Greek and Roman epic to the modern novel via Dante, Milton, Wordsworth, Sterne andDickens, A. Kullanıcılar ne diyor? - Eleştiri yazın. Her zamanki yerlerde hiçbir eleştiri bulamadık. The Beginning of the Aeneid.

Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the Novel. Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure? A. Nuttall.

Openings: Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the Novel. And, the pattern of the combination was called 'Poetic form'. 12 "Poetic forms" were found existing from the poetic image structure investigation. Mod Lang Rev. Jeremy Tambling. through! consideration and it was shown that at least 14 forms exist.

Similar books and articles. Epic Poetry Charles Rowan Beye: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Epic Tradition. Eleanor McNees - 1991 - Philosophy and Literature 15 (1):170-172. Towards a Socio-Cognitive Approach to Religious Text : A Case Study inIndian Epic Literature. James M. Hegarty - 2010 - In Armin W. Geertz & Jeppe Sinding Jensen (ed., Religious Narrative, Cognition, and Culture: Image and Word in the Mind of Narrative. Stephen A. Nimis: Narrative Semiotics in the Epic Tradition: The Simile. London: Macmillan, 1968.

Openings: Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the Novel examines in depth how epics, long stories, novels, and other lengthy works begin, and how those beginnings affect readers' reaction to and relation with the story. Nuttall looks at formal and natural types of openings, and discusses how some writers tend to start their stories in medias res-in the middle of the action-while others prefer to begin at the beginning