@article{1468264,
      recid = {1468264},
      author = {Barton, Roman Alexander. and Contzen, Eva von. and  Rüggemeier, Anne.},
      title = {Literary lists : a short history of form and function /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {This book provides a concise introduction to lists in  literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first  century. Tracing the changing functions of the literary  list across time, it offers a broad range of case studies  which situate selected enumerations in their respective  contexts and demonstrate the versatility and creative  potential of the list form. Starting with a review of  previous research on the literary list, the book discusses  four main constellations of enumeration: series and the  great chain of being; itemization and enumerative realism;  letteracettera and experimental list-making; white noise  and creative exploits of enumeration between formal  playfulness and existential exploration. The epilogue  offers an analytical toolkit for the study of literary  lists based on rhetorical theory. Roman Alexander Barton  was appointed Assistant Professor of English Literature at  the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2020. Previously,  he held a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the  ERC-funded project Lists in Literature and Culture. His  research interests include the early modern and modernist  literary list, the poetics of dramatic brevity, and  philosophical fiction. Eva von Contzen is Professor of  English Literature including the Literatures of the Middle  Ages at University of Freiburg, Germany. Her research  interests include literary lists, especially the epic  catalogue, medieval practices of narration, cognitive  literary theory, and narrative theory in a diachronic  trajectory. Anne Rggemeier is Lecturer and DFG Research  Fellow at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Her research  interests include life writing, narratology, literary  lists, especially the interfaces between the forms and the  politics of listmaking in 19th and 20th century literary  discourse, and medical humanities. She is currently working  on a book project in which she explores the poetics of  isolation in English literature (17th to 21st centuries).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1468264},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28372-7},
}