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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brooks, Peter, 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.
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Table of 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.