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Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative

by Peter Brooks

2021-01-02 08:41:18

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Preface1. Reading for the Plot2. Narrative Desire3. The Novel and the Guillotine, or Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir4. Freud''s Masterplot: A Model for Narrative5. Repetition, Repression, and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations6. The M... Read more

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

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ISBN9780674748927
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Peter Brooks
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Peter Brooks has been teaching and writing about Honoré de Balzac for many years. Among his books are the nonfiction volumes The Melodramatic Imagination, Reading for the Plot, Psychoanalysis a...

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