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Article: Towards a "Natural" Narratology.
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Monika Fludernik. New York: Routledge, 1996. xvi + 454 pp. $99.95 cloth.
"'The king died and then the queen died,' is a story. 'The king died, and then the queen died of grief,' is a plot" (Forster 93). Surely no formulation summarizes more succinctly the interface between the various narratological theories of recent years and earlier approaches to the study of narrative. Accentuating chronology of events, on the one hand, and causal links between those events, on the other, it gives a favored place to the "who-did-what-and-why" of narrative and, in effect, reflects the widely held and pervasive position that narrative is defined essentially in terms of a content ...