Narrativity, Structure, and Spatial Form

Abstract Chapters 3 and 4 discussed the main theoretical challenges to a logic of narrativity. This chapter considers two analytical approaches which provide useful and interesting insights into narrative ontology, and which are not bent on wholly subverting conventional expectations about the functioning of narratives, although they might wish to refine these expectations. Both approaches, however, tend to ignore the question of narrativity and thus ignore the enabling force itself of narrative.