To the readers of Style
We are pleased to announce that you hold in your hands our special issue of Style, volume 55, number 1 (2021), and guest edited by the distinguished Professor Dan Shen, of the University of Beijing [Peking University], PR China, Department of English. She has written a “Target Essay” or TE (included), titled “Covert Progression and Dual Narrative Dynamics” and, following a number of responses to it, has also written rejoinders to all contributors. Professor Shen's essay lays out some recent principles and consequences of the covert and dual conception of narrative dynamics she has been working on for a while (abstract below).
We received the completed essay in early spring 2020, and subsequently mailed copies to a number of narrative scholars across the world, asking them to contribute a response of some 1,000 to 2,000 words to any element or section of the target...
