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This essay was originally published (and is freely available) in the Journal of Digital Information, Volume 1, Issue 7, (December 2000), and is reproduced here with permission.
McAdams' offers a rather elegant definition of minimal units, though it is not without its problems (what would a basic unit of a painting or a musical score be?). What is relevant to this discussion is that the concept of closure described requires a notion of narrative closure, even minimally, and when considered in this manner it becomes clear that, like cinema, hypertextual narrative closure (as narrative units) are formed in syntagmatic series, of variable length and variety.
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