A poetics of plot for the twenty-first century [electronic resource] : theorizing unruly narratives / Brian Richardson
- Author
- Richardson, Brian, 1953-
- Published
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
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- Contents
- Narrative, the nonnarrative, and the unnarratable -- Modeling narrative beginnings -- Narrative middles I: Plot, probability, and tellability -- Narrative middles II: Non plot-based narrative progressions -- The varieties of narrative time -- Adventures of the book: fabricating fabula and syuzhet -- Narrative endings: fixed, unfixed, illusory, and unnatural -- Conclusion: Narrative theory and the poetics of story and plot.
- Summary
- "Provides a model for considering story and plot that encompasses both traditional narratives and postmodern experiments. Considers work from Aristophanes, Shakespeare, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter"--
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- 0814277349 (ebook)
9780814214121 (cloth)
0814214126 (cloth)
9780814255544 (paperback)
9780814277348 (ebook)
081425554X (paperback) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and index.
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