Symbolism 15: [Special Focus – Headnotes, Footnotes, Endnotes]

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Symbolism 15

[Special Focus – Headnotes, Footnotes, Endnotes]

Edited by: Rüdiger Ahrens
Rüdiger Ahrens

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and Klaus Stierstorfer
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In collaboration with: Patrick O'Donnell
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and Heide Ziegler
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Published/Copyright: 2015

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Volume 15 | Symbolism

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While paratexts – among them headnotes, footnotes, or endnotes – have never been absent from American literature, the last two decades have seen an explosion of the phenomenon, including (mock) scholarly footnotes, to an extent that they seem to take over the text itself. In this Special Focus we shall attempt to find the reasons for this astonishing development. In our first (diachronic) section we shall explore such texts as might have fostered the present boom, from fictions by Edgar Allan Poe to Vladimir Nabokov to Mark Z. Danielewski. The second (synchronic) section, will concentrate on paratexts by David Foster Wallace, perhaps the “father” of the post-postmodern footnote, as well as those to be found in novels by Bennett Sims, Jennifer Egan and Junot Diaz, among others. It appears that, while paratexts definitely point to a high degree of self-reflexivity in the author, they equally draw attention to the textual and authorial functions of the works in which they exist. They can thus cause a reflection on the boundaries between genres like fiction, faction, and autobiography, as well as serving to highlight a host of pedagogical and social concerns that exist in the interstices between fiction and reality.

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Rüdiger Ahrens, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; Klaus Stierstorfer, Universität Münster; Münster, Deutschland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Foreword from the Editors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	v
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Special Focus: Headnotes, Footnotes, Endnotes. Reflections on the Margins of the Literary Text
Introduction: Headnotes, Footnotes, Endnotes. Reflections on the Margins of the Literary Text Patrick O’Donnell and Heide Ziegler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
I. Undermining Authority, Power, and Dominance
Poe, Annotation, and the Other Stephen Rachman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
Headnotes and Endnotes in the African American Sonnet Timo Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
Páginas en blanco, Footnotes, and the Authority of the Archive in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao John Morán González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	57
II. Diluting Mainstream Constraints
Too Much Fun – Endnotes in Infinite Jest Eva Dolo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
Paratextualized Forms of Fictional Self-Narration: Footnotes, Headnotes and Endnotes in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad Johanna Hartmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	101
“Only a Book”: Reading the Footnotes in House of Leaves Laura B. McGrath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
III. Creating Another Voice for the Self
The Novel as Note: Pale Fire and its Aftermath Patrick O’Donnell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
Headnotes, Footnotes, Subliminal Notes in “Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky” and The Kraus Project Heide Ziegler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
General Section
The Visible Remainder: Curtis White’s Memories of My Father Watching TV Patrick O’Donnell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
Classicism, Cultural Mobility, Hybridity, and the Transnational Imagination in the Works of Reginald Shepherd Christopher Schliephake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213