Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Thanks to Cathy Romagnolo for many years of rich discussion on the topic of narrative beginnings, and to the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, which approved two panels on beginnings and endings for the 2005 mla convention—papers that provided the origin of this anthology. Thanks to Jennifer Wellman for editorial advice. Thanks also to the following publishers for granting permission to reprint: Clemson University Digital Press, for several pages of Melba Cuddy-Keane’s chapter, “Virginia Woolf and Beginning’s Ragged Edge”; Ohio University Press, for Oliver Buckton’s chapter, “Mr. Betwixtand -Between: The Politics of Narrative Indeterminacy in Stevenson’s Kidnapped and David Balfour,” which originally appeared in Buckton ’s book Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narration, and the Colonial Body (2007); and The Ohio State University Press, for James Phelan’s chapter, “The Beginning of Beloved: A Rhetorical Approach,” a longer version of which appears in Phelan’s book Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative (2007). Narrative Beginnings ...