First Pages by Giancarlo Maiorino

First Pages by Giancarlo Maiorino

First Pages proves the power of the title to connect the reader to the thematic, cultural, and literary context of the writing as a whole. Much like a facade to a building, the title page serves as the frontispiece of literature, a sign that offers perspective and demands interpretation.

“Professor Maiorino’s First Pages, sparkling with witty aperçus, offers the first systematic and genuinely comparative study of ‘titology’ in literatureProceeding from the thesis that the title is ‘the seed that contains the tree,’ the sophisticated work provides both theory and practice of its fascinating topic, taking representative examples from the Renaissance to the present. The reader will never again look at a literary title with the same innocence as before.”

—Theodore Ziolkowski, Princeton University

Giancarlo Maiorino is Rudy Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Indiana University. He is the author of numerous books, including At the Margins of the Renaissance: Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Art of Survival (Penn State, 2003), winner of the 2004 Modern Language Association's James Russell Lowell Prize.

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ISBN 13	9780271058740
ISBN 10	0271058749
Title	First Pages
Author	Giancarlo Maiorino
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pennsylvania State University Press
Year published	2012-11-15
Number of pages	376
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