ABSTRACT Title of Document: BRITISH MODERNIST ... - DRUM

little attention in the past, little of that attention has focused on the middle as a
middle. As I hope this study has shown, there is much to be gained by thinking
explicitly of narrative middles. Attention to narrative middles can help illuminate
narrative structures, highlight new texts or new passages, and, perhaps most
importantly, can help us re-think what makes a text a single narrative. If we are to
think of texts primarily through their beginnings and endings, the middle very easily
may become a muddle. To escape an Aristotelian model of narrative means, in part,
to think of the middle as something distinct, a text in itself, a space that creates, rather
than is simply created by, narrative structure.
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