Demonstrating in selected novels, tales, and short stories written in Britain over the centuries, H羹hn (U. of Hamburg, Germany) describes a framework for defining the narratological term
"event;" its specific dependence of the historical, socio-cultural, and literary context; and its central function in the organization and the meaning of plot in narrative fiction. He sets out
general features of narration then tailors them to account for the particular type of change represented by an event. Then he applies his construction to 15 works of fiction from Chaucer's The
Miller's Tale about 1400 to Graham Swift's 1996 Last Orders. Among others are Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Samuel Richardson's Pamela, Dickens' Great Expectations, Virginia Woolf's An Unwritten
Novel, and John Fowles' The Enigma. There is no index. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
