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. |