In this study of American cultural production from the colonial era to the present, Russell Reising takes up the loose ends of popular American narratives to craft a new theory of narrative closure. In the range of works examined here--from Phillis Wheatley's poetry to Herman Melville's" Israel Potter," from Henry James's "The Jolly Corner" to the Disney Studio's "Dumbo"--Reising finds endings that violate all existing theories of closure and narratives that expose the the often unarticulated issues that inspired these texts. Reising suggests that these "non-endings" entirely refocus the...
In this study of American cultural production from the colonial era to the present, Russell Reising takes up the loose ends of popular American narrat...
Offering a study of American cultural production from the colonial era onwards, this book takes up the loose ends of popular American narratives to craft a theory of narrative closure.
Offering a study of American cultural production from the colonial era onwards, this book takes up the loose ends of popular American narratives to cr...
