Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative
Aug 2012 · Sold by Knopf
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A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life.
About the author
PETER BROOKS has written extensively about the nineteenth-century novel. His books include The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess; Reading for the Plot; Body Work; Psychoanalysis and Storytelling; and The Emperor's Body: A Novel. After many years on the faculty at Yale University, he currently teaches at Princeton University.
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