Finding the Plot
Storytelling in Popular Fictions
1st Edition
Published on 11. August 2014
349 pages
978-1-4438-6544-9 (ISBN)
Description
",Plot",, writes Peter Brooks, ",is so basic to our very experience of reading, and indeed to our articulation of experience in general, that criticism has often passed it over in silence...", (Reading for the Plot, xi). Finding the Plot both explores and helps to redress this critical neglect. The book brings together an international group of scholars to address the nature, effects and specific pleasures of consuming stories. If the central focus is on France and popular literary fiction, the book's scope - like contemporary fiction itself - observes no national frontiers, and extends across a variety of media. The book addresses both the empirical question of which genres and types of text have been and are most ",popular",, and the theoretical questions of how plots work, what pleasures they offer to readers, and why it matters that the plot should not be lost.
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- PART 1: THEORY AND STORY
- CHAPTER ONE - PUISSANCE DE L'INTRIGUE
- CHAPTER TWO - STORYPLAYING. LA MACHINE A FABRIQUER SES HISTOIRES ET A APAISER SON ESPRIT
- CHAPTER THREE - L'ENJEU DU PLAISIR DANS LA RECEPTION CRITIQUE DU ROMAN POPULAIRE AU XIXE SIECLE
- CHAPTER FOUR - INTRIGUE, AS-TU DU COEUR?
- CHAPTER FIVE - FICTIONNALISATION ET STORYTELLING DANS LA PRESSE TABLOID
- CHAPTER SIX - ON THE ART OF PLOTTING, AND THE READER AS CO-CONSPIRATOR
- PART II: STORY/HISTORY
- CHAPTER SEVEN - LES NOMADES DE LA PREHISTOIRE
- CHAPTER EIGHT - CAN A TALE BE TELLING WITHOUT A PLOT?
- CHAPTER NINE - EMPLOTTING THE FAIR
- CHAPTER TEN - PICARESQUE PLOTS AND IMPROPER HEROINES
- CHAPTER ELEVEN - TELLING TALES ABOUT WORLD WAR TEO IN PHILIPPE GRIMBERT'S UN SECRET
- PART III: BENDING GENRES
- CHAPTER TWELVE - LE PLAISIR DU POLAR ET SES PARADOXES
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN - TRANS-BOND-EXPRESS, OU LES PLAISIRS MOBILES (1953-1965)
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN - COURIR APRES LES INTRIGUES ...
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN - INEVITABLE PLOTS IN THE SYMBOLIST NOVEL?
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN - FINDING THE PLOT IN FRENCH CHANSON
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - REWRITING THE PLOT
- PART IV: IN A SPIN: STORYTELLING IN THE POSTMODERN ERA
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - LES FANS ET LES HISTOIRES
- CHAPTER NINETEEN - DU COEUR AU PRISME
- CHAPTER TWENTY - TELLING NEW STORIES?
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - DAN BROWN, OR THE PARALITERARY AS THE GREAT CODE OF LITERATURE
- POSTFACE - FINDING THE PLOT
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
