David Purnell
List of John Benjamins publications for which David Purnell plays a role.
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2014 “Happily ever after”: Are traditional scripts just for fairy tales? Narrative Inquiry 24:1, pp. 175–180 | Article
The domination of a happy narrative frame has gradually broadened to include different kinds of endings, but a positive resolution is still often expected. Do narratives need an optimistic ending? Do hopeful endings begin to loose their credibility? Should we buy into the Hollywood scripts… read more