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Desire without History@@@Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative
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This article is published in Novel: A Forum on Fiction.The article was published on 1985-01-23. It has received 815 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative & Reading (process).read more
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What Cannot Be Told: Gender and the Limits of Storytelling in Andre Dubus's “Graduation”
TL;DR: In this article, the authors chart ways in which Andre Dubus's short story "Graduation" articulates problems of telling and, even more fundamentally, of being-experienced by a young woman, Bobbie Huxford, in white, middle-class America of the 1950s.
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Grammatic Action and the Art of Tautology
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The completion of Edwin Drood: endings and authority in finished and unfinished narratives
TL;DR: This paper studied the reception of Charles Dickens' unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood and established the centrality of the figure of the author as the perceived sanction for the completed text, and showed that the attempts to take on the authorial authority are perceived as sacrilegious, but that the perception of the completion-writers' lack of the authority to posit an ending affects whether completions are read as able to complete the story.
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Follow the Story: Narrative and Immersion
TL;DR: The authors argue that form and story structure have a reciprocal relationship in facilitating immersive experience, using Punchdrunk's linear immersive production The Crash of the Elysium (2011) as a case study.