A poetics of plot for the twenty first century : theorizing unruly narratives Provides a model for considering story and plot that encompasses both traditional narratives and postmodern experiments. Considers work from Aristophanes Shakespeare James Joyce Virginia Woolf Salman Rushdie and Angela Carter Narrative the nonnarrative and the unnarratable Modeling narrative beginnings Narrative middles I: Plot probability and tellability Narrative middles II: Non plot based narrative progressions The varieties of narrative time Adventures of the book: fabricating fabula and syuzhet Narrative endings: fixed unfixed illusory and unnatural Conclusion: Narrative theory and the poetics of story and plot.