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Tables of Contents for Narrative Dynamics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
General Introduction
1
8
PART I TIME
Introduction: Narrative Temporality
9
6
Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel: Notes toward a Historical Poetics
15
10
Order, Duration, and Frequency
25
10
Narrative Time
35
12
Beyond Story and Discourse: Narrative Time in Postmodern and Nonmimetic Fiction
47
24
PART II PLOT
Introduction: Plot and Emplotment
64
7
Story and Plot
71
2
Fairy-Tale Transformations
73
21
The Concept of Plot and the Plot of Tom Jones
94
8
The Argument of Comedy
102
8
Emphasis Added: Plots and Plausibilities in Women's Fiction
110
20
Narrative Desire
130
8
Coming Unstrung: Women, Men, Narrative, and Principles of Pleasure
138
26
PART III NARRATIVE SEQUENCING
Introduction: Narrative Progressions and Sequences
159
5
Story, Plot, and Motivation
164
15
Text Generation
179
12
The Historical Text as Literary Artifact
191
20
Narrative Progression
211
6
Spatialization: A Strategy for Reading Narrative
217
12
Queering the Marriage Plot: How Serial Form Works in Maupin's Tales of the City
229
27
PART IV BEGINNINGS AND ENDS
Introduction: Openings and Closure
249
7
Beginnings
256
11
The Sense of a Beginning
267
5
Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel
272
10
Endings and Contradictions
282
18
Reading Beginnings and Endings
300
14
Loose Ends: Aesthetic Closure and Social Crisis
314
19
PART V NARRATIVE FRAMES
Introduction: Narrative Frames and Embeddings
329
4
The Literary Frame
333
6
Stories within Stories: Narrative Levels and Embedded Narrative
339
15
The Parergon
354
12
Stacks, Frames, and Boundaries
366
20
Bibliography
386
7
Suggested Further Reading
393
2
Relevant Short Narratives
395