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16 septembre 2021
- handle: 10670/1.glf9tu
- isbn: 9781800641587
- eisbn: 9791036570544
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Middlemarch George Eliot epigraph Casaubon Adam Roberts Literature, British Isles LIT000000 LIT004010 DS DSBSujets proches
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Adam Roberts, « 7. Epigraphy : Beginnings and Ends », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.glf9tu
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It might be thought perverse, in a book explicitly about the use of epigraphs in Middlemarch, to have waited so long to quantify the specific lineaments of Eliot’s epigraphy in the novel. There are, though, reasons why such work belongs at the end rather than the beginning. An epigraph precedes a chapter, of course; it comes at the beginning, or strictly speaking comes before the beginning. But we cannot make sense of the epigraph until we understand its relationship to the chapter it sets up...