Cohesion, one of the main standards of textuality advanced by Robert de Beaugrande and Wolfgang U. Dressler, is treated in the present article as a constitutive principle of textual organization. The study aims at identifying the role of
cohesive categories, i.e.
reference, substitution, ellipsis, junction, and lexical cohesion to the thematic organization and logical structuring of literary narratives. Analyzing the actual manifestation of lexical and grammatical cohesion elements
in specific narrative contexts, the article seeks to identify the cohesive devices that enhance or preclude the logical, coherent
concatenation of a given literary text with a view to evaluating their impact on the general understanding and interpretation of
the narrative.
