Publisher's Synopsis
Serial forms of narration are virtually non-lockable, always inviting you to continue writing and filming. You are committed to continuity, but this continuity is sometimes fragile. This volume follows the methodical figure of the broken narratives from the beginnings of the modern feature novel in the 19th century to current television series. The focus is on the question of how, for narrative forms that are committed to the principle of continuation, breaks are also constitutive: in the narrative structure as well as at the level of the plots and the performative forms of representation. The principle of the serial - in addition to its virtual inability to lock - also repeatedly produces its self-deconstruction.
