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Narrative Closure

Narrative Closure is a narratological concept denoting the structural condition in which a narrative brings its plotlines, causal questions, and thematic tensions to a satisfactory resolution that produces a sense of completion for the reader or audience.

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28

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2017–2026

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63

Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End

John Bender, Barbara Herrnstein Smith · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 1970 · 531 citations

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Classical closure: reading the end in Greek and Latin literature

Choice Reviews Online · 1997 · 483 citations

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Narrative and Its Discontents: Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel

Tom Lewis, D. A. Miller, Marianna Torgovnick · World Literature Today · 1982 · 157 citations

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Narrative and Its Discontents: Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel

Laurence Lerner, D. A. Miller · Comparative Literature · 1983 · 148 citations

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Tragedy's end: closure and innovation in Euripidean drama

Choice Reviews Online · 1997 · 118 citations

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Authors

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  1. SR
    Susan R. Goldman

    University of Illinois Chicago, United States

    2 publications · 24 citations

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  2. TK
    Tobias Klauk

    University of Göttingen, Germany

    2 publications · 51 citations

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  3. CK
    Connie K. Varnhagen

    University of Alberta, Canada

    2 publications · 24 citations

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  4. EJ
    Elizabeth J. MacArthur

    2 publications · 87 citations

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  5. DA
    D. A. Miller

    University of Cincinnati Medical Center, United States

    2 publications · 305 citations

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Institutions

28

  1. Colorado State University

    Fort Collins, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    39 citations

  2. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    531 citations

  3. California University of Pennsylvania

    California, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    31 citations

  4. University of Göttingen

    Göttingen, Germany

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    93 citations

  5. University of Glasgow

    Glasgow, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

  6. University of Graz

    Graz, Austria

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    27 citations

  7. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  8. Goldsmiths University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    88 citations

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  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 4 publications · 671 citations

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  3. The Modern Language Review

    2 publications · 115 citations

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  4. Child Development

    2 publications · 24 citations

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  5. diacritics

    1 publications · 10 citations

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