Opening Acts: Narrative Beginnings in Twentieth. Romagnolo<|

Opening Acts\nby Catherine Romagnolo\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Catherine Romagnolo\nTitle: Opening Acts\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literature: history and criticism\nPublisher: MQ - University of Nebraska Press\nPublication year: 2015\nISBN-13: 9780803269637\nISBN-10: 0803269633\nRRP: \u00A345.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn the beginning there was...the beginning. And with the beginning came the power to tell a story. Few book-length studies of narrative beginnings exist, and not one takes a feminist perspective. Opening Acts reveals the important role of beginnings as moments of discursive authority with power and agency that have been appropriated by writers from historically marginalized groups.\n\nIn the beginning there was...the beginning. And with th.