| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 363 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-358) and index. |
| Contents |
Reading for the plot -- Narrative desire -- Novel and the guillotine, or fathers and sons in Le Rouge et le noir -- Freud's masterplot: a model for narrative -- Repetition, repression, and return: the plotting of Great expectations -- Mark of the beast: prostitution, serialization, and the 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. |
| Subject |
Fiction -- Technique.
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Fiction -- Technique. |
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Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
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Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) |
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Narration (Rhetoric) |
| Indexed Term |
11030 fiction in European languages 1800-1945 p1030 narrative 60030 critical studies |
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Fiction 19th century History and criticism |
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Fiction 20th century History and criticism |
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Fiction Technique |
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Narration (Rhetoric) |
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Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Brooks, Peter, 1938- Reading for the plot. 1st ed. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1984 (OCoLC)562739848 |
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Online version: Brooks, Peter, 1938- Reading for the plot. 1st ed. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1984 (OCoLC)609167388 |
| ISBN |
0394505972 |
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9780394505978 |
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