
To Be Continued - Forms of Narrative Continuation
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To Be Continued discusses forms of creating narrative continuation, such as adventure, parody, the saga format, fan fiction, seriality, spin-offs in case studies ranging from the 18 th century to the present.
Narrative Structure. Novels organized by tight plot constructions are rather rare. Episodic structures are the rule. The number of episodic sequences is not fixed, the narrative closure of episodes is preliminary, and the interrelation of episodes is open to retrospective reconfiguration, which makes additions and further narrative elaborations a constant option.
Intertextual Links. Novels can thus be seen as experiments which use the modification of existing elements and the introduction of new elements to indicate and conceptualize cultural change. Seriality and parody mark the extremely divergent forms such experiments can employ: to write on or to re-write, to quote affirmatively, ironically, or satirically are basic forms of building traditions or of revising them, and can be related to conflicts over literary, economic or symbolic capital.
For the reader, the entertainment value of a text may increase or decrease with the familiarity of a story world with its specific characters: the economy of attention, the level of affective bonding, and their consequences - identification, revulsion, or boredom - are molded by continuation.
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Ulla Haselstein , Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Florian Sedlmeier , University of Hamburg, Germany.
Content
- Frontmatter
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Ulla Haselstein and Florian Sedlmeier
- Introduction: Forms of Narrative Continuation
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- Works Cited
- Andreas Mahler
- Continuation and the Novel: Open Context and the Problem of Closure
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- Works Cited
- MaryAnn Snyder-Körber
- Clotels: Bad Beginnings, Instructive Continuations
- Playing Out Clotels
- Plagiarama?
- Tales of Truth, or: Print and Consequences
- Of Foundations and Speculations
- Closer Viewing
- Not a Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Florian Sedlmeier
- "He Keeps Happening": Character and Situation in W. D. Howells's A Modern Instance
- 1 Realism as Installment Fiction: Character and Situation
- 2 Allegories of Reading and Writing
- 3 Arriving and Staying
- 4 Disappearance and Speculation
- 5 Reappearance, Death, and Resurrection
- Works Cited
- James Dorson
- Serial Singularity: Reading for the Project Form in the Business Romance
- 1 The Business Romance
- 2 Mapping the Project Form
- 3 The Narrative Appeal of Projects
- 4 The Adventure Story as Project Genre
- 5 Excited Instrumentality
- 6 Projections
- Works Cited
- Jeremy Rosen
- Genre-Bending Literary Fiction and the Pleasure of Immersion in Fictional Worlds
- The Pleasure of Immersion
- Caught in Mitchell's Yarnin'
- Transportation to Fictional Worlds
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf and Obstacles to Immersion
- Conclusion: The Permutations of Pleasure and the Pleasures of Permutation
- Works Cited
- Simone Sannio
- The Eternal Draft: Authorial Revision and Philip Roth's Construction of the Oeuvre
- 1 Constructing the Oeuvre
- 2 Operation Shylock as Pivot
- 3 Rough Drafts and Second Thoughts
- Coda: The Struggle Is Not Over
- Works Cited
- Julie Dickson
- Nicole Krauss's To Be a Man: Implications of Continuity in the Jewish American Short Story Collection
- 1 Expect to Connect: Contextual and Paratextual Influence on Continuity
- 2 Character as Identity, Setting as Milieu
- 3 Identity as a Structure of Thinking - About the Past
- 4 Repetition as Theme and Hermeneutic
- 5 'Case Studies' of Third-Generation Consciousness
- 6 Arrangement as Plot - The Allegorical Arc of History
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Deidre Lynch
- Ali Smith and the Unfinished Book: Novels, Middles, and Serialization in an Electronic Age
- Works Cited
- Ulla Haselstein
- Of Masks and Men: Percival Everett's James
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- Works Cited
- Andrew S. Gross
- Eclogue: The End of History in Verse (Continued)
- 1 "Manifest Destiny"
- 2 The End, Again and Again
- Works Cited
- Birte Wege
- Shakespeare, Ibsen, and the Staged Future of Robots
- 1 Robots and the Theatre
- 2 Hedda Gabler and The Singularity
- 3 Bringing Hamlet Back to Life
- 4 Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Frank Kelleter
- The Remake as Fetish Art: On Gus Van Sant's Psycho and Other Psychos
- 1 Shameless Serialities
- 2 Pop (Not) Art
- 3 Dirty Nights
- 4 Counterfactual Media History
- Works Cited
- Films and Literary Texts
- List of Contributors
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