Digressions in European Literature

1. Introduction
Alexis Grohmann, Caragh Wells

2. The Twists and Turns of Life: Cervantes’s Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda
Jeremy Robbins

3. Digressive and Progressive Movements: Sympathy and Sexuality in Tristram Shandy; or, Plain Stories
Judith Hawley

4. Little Dorrit: Dickens, Circumlocution, Unconscious Thought
Jeremy Tambling

5. Concerning Metaphor, Digression and Rhyme (Fetish Aesthetics and the Walking Poem)
Ross Chambers

6. Henry James, in Parenthesis
Ian F. A. Bell

7. A Slice of Watermelon: The Rhetoric of Digression in Chekhov’s ‘The Lady with the Dog’
Peter J. Rabinowitz, Corinne Bancroft

8. ‘Let’s Forget All I Have Just Said’: Diversions and Digressions in Gidean Narratives
David H. Walker

9. Errant Eyes: Digression, Metaphor and Desire in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
Margaret Topping

10. Virginia Woolf and Digression: Adventures in Consciousness
Laura Marcus

11. Stealing the Story: Robert Walser’s Robber-Novel
Samuel Frederick

12. Negotiating Tradition: Flann O’Brien’s Tales of Digression and Subversion
Flore Coulouma

13. ‘Going On’: Digression and Consciousness in The Beckett Trilogy
Edmund J. Smyth

14. Straight Line or Aimless Wandering? Italo Calvino’s Way to Digression
Olivia Santovetti

15. Roving with a Compass: Digression, the Novel and the Creative Imagination in Javier Marías
Alexis Grohmann

16. The Sense of Sebald’s Endings … and Beginnings
J. J. Long

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