Digressions in European Literature: From Cervantes to Sebald

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-8
The Twists and Turns of Life: Cervantes’s Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda....Pages 9-20
Digressive and Progressive Movements: Sympathy and Sexuality in Tristram Shandy; or, Plain Stories....Pages 21-35
Little Dorrit: Dickens, Circumlocution, Unconscious Thought....Pages 36-48
Concerning Metaphor, Digression and Rhyme (Fetish Aesthetics and the Walking Poem)....Pages 49-63
Henry James, in Parenthesis....Pages 64-81
A Slice of Watermelon: The Rhetoric of Digression in Chekhov’s ‘The Lady with the Dog’....Pages 82-93
‘Let’s Forget All I Have Just Said’: Diversions and Digressions in Gidean Narratives....Pages 94-105
Errant Eyes: Digression, Metaphor and Desire in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time....Pages 106-117
Virginia Woolf and Digression: Adventures in Consciousness....Pages 118-129
Stealing the Story: Robert Walser’s Robber-Novel....Pages 130-142
Negotiating Tradition: Flann O’Brien’s Tales of Digression and Subversion....Pages 143-155
‘Going On’: Digression and Consciousness in The Beckett Trilogy....Pages 156-168
Straight Line or Aimless Wandering? Italo Calvino’s Way to Digression....Pages 169-180
Roving with a Compass: Digression, the Novel and the Creative Imagination in Javier Marías....Pages 181-192
The Sense of Sebald’s Endings … and Beginnings....Pages 193-204
Back Matter....Pages 205-213