Reading for the plot : design and intention in narrative /
by Brooks, Peter.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1992Edition: First Harvard University Press paperback edition.Description: xviii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0674748921; 9780674748927.Subject(s): Fiction -- Technique | Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) | Narration (Rhetoric)
Contents:
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.
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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.
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