Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Reading Narrative Causalities: Functions and Functional Polyvalence
Chapter 2 The Princess and the Pea(s): Two Versions, Different Causalities
Chapter 3 Nonchronological Narration:
Poe¿s ¿The Assignation¿ and Browning¿s ¿My Last Duchess¿¿
Chapter 4 The Comforts that Function C Brings:
Shakespeare¿s Hamlet, Racine¿s Phaedra, and James¿s Daisy Miller
Chapter 5 Lingering at Functions D, E, and F:
James¿s The Ambassadors and Kafka¿s ¿Before the Law¿
Chapter 6 Sequential Perception: James¿s The Turn of the Screw and Balzac¿s Sarrasine
Chapter 7 Narrative Borderlands I:
The Lyric, the Image, and the Isolated Moment as Temporal Hinge
Chapter 8 Narrative Borderlands II:
The Image Where Stories Proliferate in Novels by Robbe-Grillet and Others
Glossary
Notes
Works Cited