Carra Glatt

Carra Glatt

Doctor of Philosophy

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These Three, Met Again” offers a reading of The Mystery of Edwin Drood grounded in Victorian psychological theories. It contributes a fresh perspective to a long-running critical debate about how the unfinished mystery was to have ended, which remains a subject of keen interest to Dickensian scholars and enthusiasts. While criticism of the novel ha...
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Narrative and its Nonevents: The Unwritten Plots that Shaped Victorian Realism examines the central role of “unwritten plots” in Victorian narrative construction. Not merely absent from a text, an unwritten plot is the rejected outgrowth of a possibility that has been raised but not realized within a given narrative world: in the unwritten plot, th...
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For seventy-nine pages, Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad (2016) offers what appears to be an unflinchingly realistic narrative of the enslaved Cora’s attempt to escape a brutal Georgia plantation. On page 80, it takes an abrupt, surreal turn to the fantastic. Having resolved to risk the horrific punishment that awaits her if she is...
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This article discusses what I call the proxy narrative, a type of narrative in which a key scene or plot sequence can be read most meaningfully as a substitute for a counterfactual alternative that cannot otherwise be narrated. Building on existing critical applications of possible world semantics and counterfactual reasoning to narrative theory, I...
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Commonly considered among the most abstract of twentieth-century American poets, Wallace Stevens has rarely been read for his narrative qualities. After an early attempt at conventional narrative with the mock epic "The Comedian as the Letter C," Stevens largely abandoned sustained plotting in favor of a renewed commitment to the lyric and contempl...