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Narrative Endings

Narrative Endings is a narratological concept denoting the terminal structural and semantic configuration of a narrative by which its plot trajectories are concluded, expectations of coherence and closure are negotiated, and the work’s overall significance is retrospectively shaped.

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320

Authors

120

Institutions

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2017–2026

26

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Publications

232

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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The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

John C. Sherwood, Frank Kermode · Comparative Literature · 1970 · 316 citations

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Experiencing fiction: judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical theory of narrative

James Phelan · Choice Reviews Online · 2008 · 297 citations

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A tale of two structures: Underlying and surface forms in stories

Nancy Johnson, Jean M. Mandler · Poetics · 1980 · 193 citations

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Can “It” Happen Again? A Reprise

Hyman P. Minsky · Challenge · 1982 · 189 citations

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Authors

320

  1. DH
    Deborah H. Roberts

    Haverford College, United States

    3 publications · 114 citations

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  2. NC
    Nathanael Chambers

    United States Naval Academy, United States

    2 publications · 235 citations

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  3. DM
    David M. Frost

    University College London, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 98 citations

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  4. JC
    Jianshu Chen

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    2 publications · 77 citations

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  5. SR
    Susan R. Goldman

    University of Illinois Chicago, United States

    2 publications · 24 citations

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Institutions

120

  1. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    108 citations

  2. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    469 citations

  3. University of Illinois Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    251 citations

  4. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    304 citations

  5. Zhejiang University

    Hangzhou, China

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    144 citations

  6. Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    166 citations

  7. University of Surrey

    Guildford, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    47 citations

  8. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    113 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 14 publications · 951 citations

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  2. The Classical Quarterly

    4 publications · 179 citations

    4

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  3. Poetics Today

    4 publications · 216 citations

    4

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  4. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

    Conference · 4 publications · 269 citations

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  5. ELH

    3 publications · 91 citations

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