NARRATIVE DYNAMICS

ESSAYS ON TIME, PLOT, CLOSURE, AND FRAME

By: BRIAN RICHARDSON

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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 across disciplines including literature, drama and theatre, and film.

Narrative Dynamics includes such classic exponents as E. M. Forster on story and plot; Vladimir Propp on the structure of the folktale; R. S. Crane on plot; Boris Tomashevsky on story, plot, and, motif; M. M. Bakhtin on the chronotope; and Gerard Genette on narrative time. Richardson highlights essential feminist essays by Nancy K. Miller on plot and plausibility, Rachel Blau Duplessis on closure, and Susan Winnett on narrative and desire. These are complimented by newer pieces by Susan Stanford Friedman on spatialization and Robyn Warhol on serial fiction. Other major contributions include Edward Said on beginnings, Hayden White on historical narrative, Peter Brooks on plot, Paul Ricoeur on time, D. A. Miller on closure, James Phelan on progression, and Jacques Derrida on the frame. Recent essays from the perspective of cultural studies, postmodernism, and artificial intelligence bring this collection right up to the present.

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"Brian Richardson's intelligently conceived Narrative Dynamics brings together essays that provide a richly multifaceted discussion of the essential property of narrative: the sequential representation of sequential events." -Emma Kafalenos Washington University, St. Louis

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Acknowledgments
General Introduction	p. 1
Time
Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel: Notes toward a Historical Poetics	p. 15
Order, Duration, and Frequency	p. 25
Narrative Time	p. 35
Beyond Story and Discourse: Narrative Time in Postmodern and Nonmimetic Fiction	p. 47
Plot
Story and Plot	p. 71
Fairy-Tale Transformations	p. 73
The Concept of Plot and the Plot of Tom Jones	p. 94
The Argument of Comedy	p. 102
Emphasis Added: Plots and Plausibilities in Women's Fiction	p. 110
Narrative Desire	p. 130
Coming Unstrung: Women, Men, Narrative, and Principles of Pleasure	p. 138
Narrative Sequencing
Story, Plot, and Motivation	p. 164
Text Generation	p. 179
The Historical Text as Literary Artifact	p. 191
Narrative Progression	p. 211
Spatialization: A Strategy for Reading Narrative	p. 217
Queering the Marriage Plot: How Serial Form Works in Maupin's Tales of the City	p. 229
Beginnings and Ends
Beginnings	p. 256
The Sense of a Beginning	p. 267
Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel	p. 272
Endings and Contradictions	p. 282
Reading Beginnings and Endings	p. 300
Loose Ends: Aesthetic Closure and Social Crisis	p. 314
Narrative Frames
The Literary Frame	p. 333
Stories within Stories: Narrative Levels and Embedded Narrative William Nelles	p. 339
The Parergon	p. 354
Stacks, Frames, and Boundaries	p. 366
Bibliography	p. 386
Suggested Further Reading	p. 393
Relevant Short Narratives	p. 395
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