> Don't most novels of any kind have cliff
hangers
> throughout? In effect, doesn't this make
each
> novel a serial?
A novel can be serialized, sure, and many were in the pulps,
occasionally are in contemporary magazines. The definition I
think we're looking at here is something presented
periodically rather than as a whole. And not all novels have
cliff-hanger breaks. You have to end a chapter somewhere, but
that's not necessarily a cliff-hanger. So the periodic
publication more succinctly defines it.
Neil Smith
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