Digressions in European Literature

Foreword; R.Chambers Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction  The Twists and Turns of Life: Cervantes's Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda ; J.Robbins Digressive and Progressive Movements: Sympathy and Sexuality in Tristram Shandy ; or, Plain Tales; J.Hawley Little Dorrit : Dickens, Circumlocution, Unconscious Thought; J.Tambling Concerning Metaphor, Digression and Rhyme (Fetish Aesthetics and the Walking Poem); R.Chambers Henry James, in Parenthesis; I.F.A.Bell A Slice of Watermelon: The Rhetoric of Digression in Chekhov's The Lady with the Dog ; P.J.Rabinowitz  & C.Bancroft 'Let's forget all I have just said': Diversions and Digressions in Gidean Narratives; D.Walker Errant Eyes: Digression, Metaphor and Desire in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time ; M.Topping Virginia Woolf and Digression: Adventures in Consciousness; L.Marcus   Stealing the Story: Robert Walser's Robber -Novel; S.Frederick Negotiating Tradition: Flann O'Brien's Tales of Digression and Subversion; F.Coulouma 'Going On': Digression and Consciousness in The Beckett Trilogy ; E.J.Smyth Straight Line or Aimless Wandering? Italo Calvino's Way to Digression; O.Santovetti Roving with a Compass; Digression, the Novel and the Creative Imagination in Javier Marías; A.Grohmann The Sense of Sebald's Endings...and Beginnings; J.J.Long Index