The early United States was a culture of the episode. In Episodic Poetics, Matthew Garrett merges narrative theory with social and political history to explain the early American fascination with the episodic, piecemeal plot.
The early United States was a culture of the episode. In Episodic Poetics, Matthew Garrett merges narrative theory with social and political history to explain the early American fascination with the episodic, piecemeal plot.
Matthew Garrett is Assistant Professor of English & American Studies at Wesleyan University.
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Contents Introduction: Reading the Episode in the Early Republic The Episode between Part and Whole Telemachus's Doubt: Toward a Theory of Episodic Poetics The Whole against the Parts: Narrative Theory From Event to Episode: Historical Poetics The Hillock and the Mountain Chapters Chapter One: The Poetics of Constitutional Consolidation Complexity and Consolidation: Out of Many, One Common and Finer: The Legacy of 1787-88 The Chain of Reading: Commerce, Episodic Poetics, Politics Hierarchy and Literary Form 1: Commerce and Contagion Hierarchy and Literary Form 2: Governing the Splintered Society Hierarchy and Literary Form 3: Faction as Form Mercantile Time and the Periodical Plot Debt and the Rhythm of Exchange Unreadability and Nationalism's Chain of Reading Chapter Two: The Life in Episodes Structure and Dispersion Erratum and Episode: Duration and Narrative Binding Character and Competition, Success and Failure Society, Mischief, and the Episode Experience, Selection, and Narrative Unity Chapter Three: The Fiction of Hesitation Reading the Episode in the Novel Adventure and Didacticism Incipits and the Incitement to Reading: From Clarissa to Constantia Against the Episode: Morality and Form in the Literary Market Nothing Happens Endless Prolixity Episode versus Futurity Episode and Ideology Chapter Four: Miscellany and the Structure of Style Commodity Writing Whim-Whams on the Market Criticism and the Work of the Writer Salmagundi: An Arthrology of the Literary Miscellany The Rejection of Reference Volubility and Formal Compromise Appendix to Chapter Four: Table of Contents and Collation of Salmagundi Conclusion Works Cited Index
Contents Introduction: Reading the Episode in the Early Republic The Episode between Part and Whole Telemachus's Doubt: Toward a Theory of Episodic Poetics The Whole against the Parts: Narrative Theory From Event to Episode: Historical Poetics The Hillock and the Mountain Chapters Chapter One: The Poetics of Constitutional Consolidation Complexity and Consolidation: Out of Many, One Common and Finer: The Legacy of 1787-88 The Chain of Reading: Commerce, Episodic Poetics, Politics Hierarchy and Literary Form 1: Commerce and Contagion Hierarchy and Literary Form 2: Governing the Splintered Society Hierarchy and Literary Form 3: Faction as Form Mercantile Time and the Periodical Plot Debt and the Rhythm of Exchange Unreadability and Nationalism's Chain of Reading Chapter Two: The Life in Episodes Structure and Dispersion Erratum and Episode: Duration and Narrative Binding Character and Competition, Success and Failure Society, Mischief, and the Episode Experience, Selection, and Narrative Unity Chapter Three: The Fiction of Hesitation Reading the Episode in the Novel Adventure and Didacticism Incipits and the Incitement to Reading: From Clarissa to Constantia Against the Episode: Morality and Form in the Literary Market Nothing Happens Endless Prolixity Episode versus Futurity Episode and Ideology Chapter Four: Miscellany and the Structure of Style Commodity Writing Whim-Whams on the Market Criticism and the Work of the Writer Salmagundi: An Arthrology of the Literary Miscellany The Rejection of Reference Volubility and Formal Compromise Appendix to Chapter Four: Table of Contents and Collation of Salmagundi Conclusion Works Cited Index
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