Proxy Narrative in "The Ambassadors": Reconfiguring James's Ending

This article discusses what I call the proxy narrative, a type of narrative in which a key scene or plot sequence can be read most meaningfully as a substitute for a counterfactual alternative that cannot otherwise be narrated. Building on existing critical applications of possible world semantics a...

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Published in:Narrative (Columbus, Ohio) Ohio), 2016-01, Vol.24 (1), p.28-49
Main Author: Glatt, Carra
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Closure (Rhetoric)
James, Henry, > 1843-1916
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