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The Sense of a Beginning is the first comprehensive exploration of the openings of novels. With a title that deliberately echoes Frank Kermode's famous book on endings, the book addresses the formal challenge of opening lines, especially in modernism, and illustrates their significance to both literary creation and literary criticism. Niels Buch Leander's approach is wide-ranging, examining how beginnings in fiction relate to beginnings in nature, how they work from a formal and narrative point of view, how modernist self-awareness plays out in openings, and how openings have altered criticism itself through intertextuality. Drawing on examples from D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Paul Valery, and more, as well as appraisals by critics like Roland Barthes and Edward Said, Leander fills a truly surprising gap in literary scholarship.

Tocharian and Indo-European Studies is the central publication for the study of two closely related languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B. Found in many Buddhist manuscripts from central Asia, Tocharian dates back to the second half of the first millennium of the Common Era, though it was not discovered until the twentieth century. Focusing on both philological and linguistic aspects of this language, Tocharian and Indo-European Studies also looks at Tocharian in relationship to other Indo-European languages.Contents of volume 17: Douglas Q. Adams, "Tocharian B arkañ yet again" 1; Adam A. Catt, "Tocharian B ly(¿¿ )ptsentar: A new class VIII present" 11; Ching Chao-jung ¿¿¿, "On the names of cereals in Tocharian B " 29; Ilya B. Itkin, "The tender ghost: Tocharian B lalä¿e 'tender' : Tocharian A ?" 65; Bernhard Koller, "Vir¿a spelling and Tocharian A prosody" 77; Dieter Maue, "Tumschukische Miszellen / Miscellanea Tumšcica IV" 109; Ogihara Hirotoshi ¿¿¿¿, "Remarks on fragment B431 of the Berlin Turfan collection" 133; Michaël Peyrot, "Further Sanskrit-Tocharian bilingual Ud¿avarga fragments" 153; Georges-Jean Pinault, "Glossary of the Tocharian B Petrovsky Buddhastotra" 213; Douglas Q. Adams, "Review of Markus Hartmann, Das Genussystem des Tocharischen" 249

Established in 1987, Tocharian and Indo-European Studies (TIES) is an international scholarly journal with contributions in English (primarily), German and French. The journal's central topic is formed by the two closely related languages Tocharian A and B, attested in Central Asian Buddhist manu-scripts dating from the second half of the first millennium AD. It focuses on philological and linguistic aspects of Tocharian, and its relation with the other Indo-European languages. Tocharian and Indo-European Studies is an international scholarly journal dedicated to the study of two closely related Indo-European languages, Tocharian A and B, attested in Central Asian manuscripts from the second half of the first millennium AD. This volume contains 11 articles by some of the world's leading specialists on Tocharian, as well as reviews of the most important publications in the field. The important article by Werner Winter was one of the last to be written by this outstanding scholar. Contents in Vol. 15: Douglas Q. Adams, "The polyvalent present-formative -äsk- in Tocharian B"; Douglas Q. Adams, "A note on Tocharian B taccimar"; Ching Chao-jung, "Perfumes in Ancient Kucha: On the word tuñe attested in Kuchean monastic accounts"; Hannes A. Fellner, "Tocharian special agents: The nt-participles"; Ilya Itkin, "Apologia for the brahmin B¿dhari: Some remarks on the meaning of the Tocharian A words ¿tare, pi- and m¿l"; Frederik Kortlandt, "The Tocharian personal endings"; Melanie Malzahn, "Tocharian A ¿orki 'fear' and two other TA scary words"; Dieter Maue, "An innocent abroad: Reflections on PK DA M.507 (40-42) b 4-6"; Ogihara Hirotoshi, "Fragments of secular documents in Tocharian A"; Michaël Peyrot, "Notes on Tocharian glosses and colophons in Sanskrit manuscripts I"; Georges-Jean Pinault, "An etymological note about the Tocharian root tätk- 'to extend'"; Georges-Jean Pinault, "The 'one night-and-day observance' of lay-followers in Tocharian Buddhism."