Reading for the Plot

Design and Intention in Narrative

By: Peter Brooks

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Paperback | 1 March 1992 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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A major book by a major critic. It will appeal both to literary theorists and to readers of the novel, and it is likely to be seen as an important point of reference for many years to come. -- Terence Cave Times Literary Supplement Peter Brooks has delivered a major contribution to narrative theory and critical practice in a book remarkable for its lucidity and theoretical adventurousness. -- Terry Eagleton Literature and History What is...gratifying about Brooks's approach is his insistence that plot elements must survive even the most radical postmodern consciousness...As he so eloquently confirms, so long as there is self-conscious life on earth, there will be narrative plotting in some form or another. To expect us to give it up would be like asking us to give up breathing. -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt New York Times A brilliant study...The author goes beyond what he considers the too static approach of the structuralist literary critics to probe the dynamics of narrative and show how they answer our psychic needs...Reading for the Plot is a stimulating ground-breaking book that invites us to consider anew how plotting both reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose meaning on life. Publishers Weekly

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Preface
Reading for The Plot
Narrative Desire
The Novel and The Guillotine, or Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir
Freud'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
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