Article: Del Lungo, Andrea. L'Incipit romanesque.(Book review)

Del Lungo, Andrea. L'Incipit romanesque. Paris: Editions du Seuil, Collection "Poetique" 2003. Pp. 377. ISBN 2020571803

"It was a dark and stormy night...." Few subjects lend themselves to such scrutiny in criticism--aesthetic and philosophical, thematic and formal, stylistic and rhetorical--as literary opening words or lines (or "signals" in Victor Brombert's felicitous phrase). And few subjects lend themselves in literary praxis to such extremes of formal conventionality and experimentation, rhetorical codification and inventiveness, analytic reflection, self-reflexivity and meta-commentary, thematic drama, and literary play, parody, irony, and iconoclasm as ...

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