Examples of unified plots: Ruth, Jonah, The Iliad (Achilles’ anger), Il nome della Rosa …; examples of episodic plots: Gilgamesh, Beowulf, the adventures of James Bond, the adventures of Thiel Eulenspiegel (Thijl Uilenspiegel), Robin Hood, The Odyssey, Samson … There are also narratives which are somehow in between. For instance the cycle of Abraham seems at first sight to be an episodic plot. But some threads may connect the different episodes (the promises for instance and especially the promise
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