Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in NarrativeA 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. |
Contents
Cover | |
A Model for Narrative | |
The Plotting of Great | |
Prostitution Serialization | |
Narrative | |
Narrative Transaction and Transference | |
Conrads Heart of Darkness | |
Freud and Narrative | |
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Absalom action analysis appears authority Balzac Balzacian Barthes become beginning Chabert chapter claim coherent death death instinct Derville desire Deslauriers detective deviance discourse dream dynamic Editions du Seuil erotic event fabula Facino Cane father fiction figure final Flaubert Fleur-de-Marie force framed tale Frédéric Freud Gérard Genette Heart of Darkness Henry hermeneutic human instinct interpretation Julien Kurtz's L'Education sentimentale La Comédie humaine Le Colonel Chabert listening living logic Marlow meaning metaphor metonymy Mme Arnoux Mme de Rênal motive Mystères de Paris narrative plot narratology never novelistic offers origin past paternity perhaps Pip's Pleasure Principle present Press problem prostitute Quentin question Raphaël reader reading realization récit relation repetition represents retrospective Rosanette Russian Formalists Satis House scene sense Shreve significant sjužet social Stendhal story structure Sue's suggests Sutpen tale telling temporal textual Todorov traditional ultimately understanding Univ voice Wolf