Elana Gomel

A Sense of No Ending, Part 1 Never Grow Up: Narrative Formlessness and Ideological Stasis in YA Fantastic Fiction

Narrative gives meaning to the passage of time by organizing it into a structured whole. The Western structure of temporality traditionally implied teleology, or what Frank Kermode called “a sense of ending.” For the last two thousand years, narratives of the future employed two...