To Be Continued – Forms of Narrative Continuation
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Edited by:
Ulla Haselstein
About this book
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 18th 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.
Author / Editor information
Ulla Haselstein, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Florian Sedlmeier, University of Hamburg, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
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Table of Contents
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Introduction: Forms of Narrative Continuation
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Continuation and the Novel: Open Context and the Problem of Closure
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Clotels: Bad Beginnings, Instructive Continuations
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“He Keeps Happening”: Character and Situation in W. D. Howells’s A Modern Instance
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Serial Singularity: Reading for the Project Form in the Business Romance
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Genre-Bending Literary Fiction and the Pleasure of Immersion in Fictional Worlds
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The Eternal Draft: Authorial Revision and Philip Roth’s Construction of the Oeuvre
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Nicole Krauss’s To Be a Man: Implications of Continuity in the Jewish American Short Story Collection
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Ali Smith and the Unfinished Book: Novels, Middles, and Serialization in an Electronic Age
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Of Masks and Men: Percival Everett’s James
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Eclogue: The End of History in Verse (Continued)
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Shakespeare, Ibsen, and the Staged Future of Robots
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The Remake as Fetish Art: On Gus Van Sant’s Psycho and Other Psychos
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