... and syntax. These critical assumptions have been influential in redirecting modern formal criticism of fiction, partly because-particularly in the work of Genette-they have generated a prolific and precise taxonomical vocabulary, an elaborate apparatus for the dissection of the literary text. More important, from my point of view, is that narratological approaches broaden and simplify the fundamental paradigms according to which ... to talk about fictions as having desires of their own or, more precisely, to find in narrative's most necessary temporal characteristics-initiation, complic...

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