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Reading for the Plot

Design and Intention in Narrative

By Peter Brooks

By Peter Brooks

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Aug 29, 2012 | ISBN 9780307962829

Reading for the Plot by Peter Brooks
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Aug 29, 2012 | ISBN 9780307962829

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About Reading for the Plot

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 Peter Brooks

Peter Brooks has written extensively about the 19-century novel. His books include The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess; Reading for the Plot; Body Work; and The Emperor’s Body: A Novel. After many years on the faculty at Yale University,… More about Peter Brooks

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Category: Literary Criticism

Ebook | $13.99
Published by Knopf
Aug 29, 2012 | 363 Pages | ISBN 9780307962829

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