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Author Brooks, Peter, 1938-

Title Reading for the plot : design and intention in narrative / Peter Brooks.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.

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 Moore Stacks  PN3378 .B76 1992    Available  ---
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.
Fiction -- Technique.
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
Narration (Rhetoric)
Narration (Rhetoric)
ISBN 0674748921
9780674748927