著者

西村 智 ニシムラ サトシ Nishimura Satoshi

出版者

中部大学全学共通教育部

雑誌

中部大学全学共通教育部紀要 (ISSN:21892547)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.3, pp.1-6, 2017-03

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It is no exaggeration to say that the pleasure of reading a narrative lies in anticipating an ending. Not only early structuralist narrative theories such as Gérard Genette's but recent ones, with the possible exception of what is known as <unnatural narratology,< more or less take it for granted that a narrative ends. This assumption dates at least as far back as Aristotle. If a narrative has to end, what remains is the problem of how it ends. This essay concerns the problem of narrative endings as it is addressed in narrative theory.