Citations:dénouement




 * 1846, E A Poe, The Philosophy of Composition
 * Nothing is more clear than that every plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its denouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the denouement constantly in view that we can give a plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points, tend to the development of the intention.




 * 2003: George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, pXXXVII
 * A great writer, and one very dear to me, thinks that the long episodes which interrupt the progress of the story … are artistic devices for impressing the reader with a sense of the slow movement of life; and in truth, it is only in fiction that the dénouement usually lies close to the exposition.59