Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Reading narrative causalities: functions and functional polyvalence
  • The princess and the pea(s): two versions, different causalities
  • Nonchronological narration: Poe's "The assignation" and Browning's "My last duchess"
  • The comforts that function c brings: Shakespeare's Hamlet, Racine's Phaedra, and James's Daisy Miller
  • Lingering at functions d, e, and f: James's The ambassadors and Kafka's "Before the law"
  • Sequential perception: James's The turn of the screw and Balzac's Sarrasine
  • Narrative borderlands I: the lyric, the image, and the isolated moment as temporal hinge
  • Narrative borderlands II: the image where stories proliferate in novels by Robbe-Grillet and others.