Narrative Dynamics Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frame

Name: Narrative Dynamics Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frame
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ISBN: 9780814250921

ISBN-10: 0814250920

ISBN-13: 9780814250921

Edition: 2002

Authors: Brian RICHARDSON

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Publication date: 5/22/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 399
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


General Introduction



Time



Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel: Notes toward a Historical Poetics




Order, Duration, and Frequency




Narrative Time




Beyond Story and Discourse: Narrative Time in Postmodern and Nonmimetic Fiction




Plot



Story and Plot




Fairy-Tale Transformations




The Concept of Plot and the Plot of Tom Jones




The Argument of Comedy




Emphasis Added: Plots and Plausibilities in Women's Fiction




Narrative Desire




Coming Unstrung: Women, Men, Narrative, and Principles of Pleasure




Narrative Sequencing



Story, Plot, and Motivation




Text Generation




The Historical Text as Literary Artifact




Narrative Progression




Spatialization: A Strategy for Reading Narrative




Queering the Marriage Plot: How Serial Form Works in Maupin's Tales of the City




Beginnings and Ends



Beginnings




The Sense of a Beginning




Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel




Endings and Contradictions




Reading Beginnings and Endings




Loose Ends: Aesthetic Closure and Social Crisis




Narrative Frames



The Literary Frame




Stories within Stories: Narrative Levels and Embedded Narrative William Nelles



The Parergon




Stacks, Frames, and Boundaries



Bibliography


Suggested Further Reading


Relevant Short Narratives