Reading for the Plot

Informationen zum Autor Peter Brooks is Tripp Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Reading for the Plot 2. Narrative Desire 3. The Novel and the Guillotine! or Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir 4. Freud's Masterplot: A Model for Narrative 5. Repetition! Repression! and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations 6. The Mark of the Beast: Prostitution! Serialization! and Narrative 7. Retrospective Lust! or Flaubert's Perversities 8. Narrative Transaction and Transference 9. An Unreadable Report: Conrad's Heart of Darkness 10. Fictions of the Wolf Man: Freud and Narrative Understanding 11. Incredulous Narration: Absalom! Absalom! In Conclusion: Endgames and the Study of Plot Notes

Product details

• Authors: Peter Brooks
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.04.1992
• EAN: 9780674748927
• ISBN: 978-0-674-74892-7
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Reference, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form