{"product_id":"inceptions-literary-beginnings-and-contingencies-of-form-hardback-9780823294626","title":"Inceptions; Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form (Hardback) 9780823294626","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eInceptions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiterary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKevin Ohi (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823294626\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 April 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.566 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe beginning is both internal and external to the text it initiates, and that noncoincidence points to the text's vexed relation with its outside. Hence the nontrivial self-reflexivity of any textual beginning, which must bear witness to the self-grounding quality of the literary work— its inability either to comprise its inception or to externalize it in an authorizing exteriority. In a different but related way, the fact that they must begin renders our lives and our desires opaque to us; what Freud called \"latency\" marks not only sexuality but human thought with a self-division shaped by asynchronicity.\u003cbr\u003e From Henry James's New York Edition prefaces to George Eliot's epigraphs, from Ovid's play with meter to Charles Dickens's thematizing of the \u003ci\u003eex nihilo \u003c\/i\u003eemergence of character, from Wallace Stevens's abstract consideration of poetic origins to James Baldwin's, Carson McCullers's, and Eudora Welty's descriptions of queer childhood, writers repeatedly confront the problem of inception. Inception introduces a fundamental contingency into texts and psyches alike: in the beginning, all could have been otherwise.\u003cbr\u003e For Kevin Ohi, the act of inception, and the potential it embodies, enables us to see making and unmaking coincide within the mechanism of creation. In this sense, Inceptions traces an ethics of reading, the possibility of perceiving, in the ostensibly finished forms of lives and texts, the potentiality inherent in their having started forth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExordium\u003c\/b\u003e   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Potentiality and Gesture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e Revision, Origin, and the Courage of Truth: Henry James's New York Edition Prefaces   23\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e \"First Love\": Gesture and the Emergence of Desire in Eudora Welty   50\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Novels and the Beginnings of Character\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobinson\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCrusoe\u003c\/i\u003e and the Inception of Speech   73\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e The Clock Finger at Nought: \u003ci\u003eDaniel Deronda\u003c\/i\u003e and the Positing of Perspective   91\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5\u003c\/b\u003e Proto-Reading and the Positing of Character in \u003ci\u003eOur Mutual Friend\u003c\/i\u003e   103\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III: Our Stony Ancestry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6\u003c\/b\u003e Ovid and Orpheus   127\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7\u003c\/b\u003e Wallace Stevens and the Temporalities of Inception and Embodiment   148\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Solitude and Queer Origins\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8\u003c\/b\u003e \"Epitaph, the Idiom of Man\": Imaginings of the Beginning   177\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9\u003c\/b\u003e Etiology, Solitude, and Queer Incipience   199\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   223\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   227\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   283\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580463280408,"sku":"9780823294626","price":115.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/inceptions-literary-beginnings-and-contingencies-of-form-hardback-9780823294626","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}