1. The Plot Snake. General Plot Form. The Origins of Plot in the Life Cycle -- 2. Narrative Mode in Models of Evolving Consciousness. Frye's Modes as Modes of Experience. Nebuchadnezzar's Dream -- 3. Low Mimesis. "All in the Family": Low Mimetic Plot. A Modal Analysis of She Stoops to Conquer. Some Modern Low Mimetic Political Novels -- 4. High Mimesis: Freud, Sophocles, Shakespeare, and the Plot of Analysis -- 5. Romance. Romance in General: "Allerleirauh" A Clutch of Romances. Shakespeare's Romances. A Generic Map of Romance -- 6. Irony and Myth. Plot and Antiplot: Waiting for Godot. Synchronic Form in Titus Andronicus. The Counterculture Trickster: Mythicized Synchronic Plot -- 7. Modes, Myths, Dreams, and Narrative Experience.