ABSTRACT
The texture of narrative has been considered most interesting in so far as it approached the density of poetry Plot has been disdained as the element of narrative that least sets off and defines high art indeed, plot is that which especially characterizes popular mass-consumption literature: plot is why we read Jaws, but not Henry James. Plot is, first of all, a constant of all written and oral narrative, in that a narrative without at least a minimal plot would be incomprehensible. Plots are not simply organizing structures, they are also intentional structures, goal-oriented and forward-moving. It could be thought of as the interpretive activity elicited by the distinction between sjuzet and fabula, the way we use the one against the other. Plot as a logic of narrative would hence seem to be analogous to the syntax of meanings that are temporally unfolded and recovered, meanings that cannot otherwise be created or understood.
