Reading For The Plot: Design And Intention in Narrative

Peter Brooks

ISBN 10: 0394729099 / ISBN 13: 9780394729091

Published by Vintage Books, New York, 1985

About this Item

Previous owner's name on bottom of half title page in small letters. First Vintage Books edition. Some discoloration to pages and covers. Minor wear along the edges. Minor rubbing wear to covers. Book may contain some residual odor from prior storage.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading For The Plot: Design And Intention in Narrative
• Publisher: Vintage Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394729099
• ISBN 13: 9780394729091
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1 pound

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Synopsis

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.

Review

A brilliant study...The author goes beyond what he considers the too static approach of the structuralist literary critics to probe the dynamics of narrative and show how they answer our psychic needs..."Reading for the Plot" is a stimulating ground-breaking book that invites us to consider anew how plotting both reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose meaning on life.

Peter Brooks has delivered a major contribution to narrative theory and critical practice in a book remarkable for its lucidity and theoretical adventurousness.--Terry Eagleton "Literature and History "

A major book by a major critic. It will appeal both to literary theorists and to readers of the novel, and it is likely to be seen as an important point of reference for many years to come.--Terence Cave "Times Literary Supplement "

What is...gratifying about Brooks's approach is his insistence that plot elements must survive even the most radical postmodern consciousness...As he so eloquently confirms, so long as there is self-conscious life on earth, there will be narrative plotting in some form or another. To expect us to give it up would be like asking us to give up breathing.--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt "New York Times "