First paragraphs: Text and film are typically framed by liminal spaces or borders where the reader or viewer enters and/or leaves the narrative world, i.e. openings and endings. Generally speaking, openings introduce the reader to the narrative world, while endings negotiate the separation with the reader or viewer (Hock 67). Narrative endings are particularly significant […]
Centrifugal and Centripetal Narrative Strategies in the Short Story Composite and the Episode Film
The article discusses the unifying and disintegrating narrative strategies of a form of episodic narrative called the short story composite, or short story cycle, and will be compared with the episode film. In the first part of the article the view that the short story composite is a comparatively recent phenomenon is questioned, the argument […]