Reading for the Plot
Design and Intention in Narrative
Published on 29. August 2012
234 pages
978-0-307-96282-9 (ISBN)
Description
A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Windows
File size
2,15 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-307-96282-9 (9780307962829)
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Peter Brooks
Reading for the Plot #
Book
07/1985
Random House USA Inc
€30.08
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Peter Brooks
Reading for the Plot
Book
06/1984
Alfred A. Knopf
€36.52
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PETER BROOKS has written extensively about the nineteenth-century novel. His books include The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess; Reading for the Plot; Body Work; Psychoanalysis and Storytelling; and The Emperor's Body: A Novel. After many years on the faculty at Yale University, he currently teaches at Princeton University.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- 1: Reading for the Plot
- 2: Narrative Desire
- 3: The Novel and the Guillotine, or Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir
- 4: Freud's Masterplot: A Model for Narrative
- 5: Repetition, Repression, and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations
- 6: The Mark of the Beast: Prostitution, Serialization, and Narrative
- 7: Retrospective Lust, or Flaubert's Perversities
- 8: Narrative Transaction and Transference
- 9: An Unreadable Report: Conrad's Heart of Darkness
- 10: Fictions of the Wolf Man: Freud and Narrative Understanding
- 11: Incredulous Narration: Absalom, Absalom!
- In Conclusion: Endgames and the Study of Plot
- Notes
