Ingersoll (English, State U. of New York-Brockport) investigates the role gender plays in the structure of narrative, especially in the various ways in which plot may be said to end. He also looks at strategies for revisiting the critical discourse on open and closed endings without discussing plot, which is disdained in formalist readings--in particular attempts to undo the paradigm or simply to ignore it. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)