Description |
xviii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Note |
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1984. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-258) and index. |
Contents |
Reading for the Plot -- Narrative Desire -- 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 -- 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. |
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) |
ISBN |
0674748921 |
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9780674748927 |
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