Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frame
Richardson, Brian / Phalen, James / Rabinowitz, Peter
This anthology brings together essential essays on major facets of narrative dynamics, that is, the means by which "narratives traverse their often unlikely routes from beginning to end." It includes the most widely cited and discussed essays on narrative beginnings, temporality, plot and emplotment, sequence and progression, closure, and frames. The text is designed as a basic reader for graduate courses in narrative and critical theory acros...