Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
@inproceedings{Phelan2006TheoryAI, title={Theory and Interpretation of Narrative}, author={James M. Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz}, year={2006} }
ion. For example, one of their categories is “Undesirable outcome” (1074), which seems to be at a level of abstraction above such categories as “Death of a loved one” and “Loss of a relationship” (1074; indeed, the second seems to be a case of the third which seems, in turn, to be a case of the first). But, insofar as they are concrete enough to count as prototypical, the categories they uncover are clearly in line with the preceding analysis. Thus, the eliciting conditions for sadness…
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