


Miller on plot and plausibility, Rachel Blau Duplessis on closure, and Susan Winnett on narrative and desire. Richardson highlights essential feminist essays by Nancy K. Bakhtin on the chronotope and Gerard Genette on narrative time. Crane on plot Boris Tomashevsky on story, plot, and, motif M. Forster on story and plot Vladimir Propp on the structure of the folktale R. Narrative Dynamics includes such classic exponents as E. 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.

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.
