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Liminality In Popular Fiction, Adam Crowley Jan 2003

Liminality In Popular Fiction, Adam Crowley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Most popular narratives are composed of segments. A narrative segment is a sequence in which those narrative elements fundamental to the immediate progression of the narrative are resolved. These resolutions can be true resolutions, or they can be resolutions in part. If they are resolutions in part, the narrative elements in question must be sufficiently transformed so that their role becomes radically different, less fundamental. When narrative segments terminate, we become aware of that which is hidden by the logical progression of the segment itself: the author's authority to introduce new narrative elements without warning or apparent need. In short, …


A Queen Amongst Women, By The Author Of "Dora Thorne" Jan 1886

A Queen Amongst Women, By The Author Of "Dora Thorne"

Maine History Documents

An issue of The Leisure Hour Library featuring, "A Queen Amongst Women. A Novel. By the Author of 'Dora Thorne.'" New Series, Volume I, No. 89, June 26, 1886.