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Brooks, Peter, 1938-

Reading for the plot : design and intention in narrative / Peter Brooks. - First Harvard University Press paperback edition. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1992. - xviii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1984.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-358) and index.

Reading for the Plot -- Narrative Desire -- The Novel and the Guillotine, or Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir -- Freund's Masterplot: A Model for Narrative -- Repetition, Repression, and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations -- The Mark of the Beast: Prostitution, Serialization, and Narrative -- Retrospective Lust, or Flaubert's Perversities -- Narrative Transaction and Transference -- An Unreadable Report: Conrad's Heart of Darkness -- Fictions of the Wolf Man: Freud and Narrative Understanding -- Incredulous Narration: Absalom, Absalom! -- In Conclusion: Endgames and the Study of Plot Notes.

ISBN: 0674748921 9780674748927

LCCN: 91031007

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Fiction--Technique.
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
Narration (Rhetoric)

LC Class. No.: PN3378 / B76 1992