Abstract

Introduction* This article addresses a number of issues raised by my research into the characteristics of the beginnings and the endings of novels. I begin by discussing the object of my research and certain methodological problems inherent within it. I then examine the implications of the notion of a 'beginning' and an 'ending'. A survey of classical, medieval, and neoclassical rhetoric will permit the establishment of links between the ancient rules of opening and concluding orations and the conventions used by writers in novels. TNvo samples drawn from Le roman de Tristan and Gargantua respectively, will be used to illustrate illuminating commonalities between texts.' Finally, in the last two sections of the paper, some features characterizing the incipit and explicit of twentieth-century novels will be discussed.

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  • Introduction* This article addresses a number of issues raised by my research into the characteristics of the beginnings and the endings of novels

  • A survey of classical, medieval, and neoclassical rhetoric will permit the establishment of links between the ancient rules of opening and concluding orations and the conventions used by writers in novels

  • TNvo samples drawn from Le roman de Tristan and Gargantua respectively, will be used to illustrate illuminating commonalities between texts.' in the last two sections of the paper, some features characterizing the incipit and explicit of twentieth-century novels will be discussed

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Introduction* This article addresses a number of issues raised by my research into the characteristics of the beginnings and the endings of novels.

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