Caserio Robert 1944 (1 results)

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: includes dust-jacket. DETAILS: good dust-jacket but with a few holes scratched or scraped through it, pencil lines in margins in first chapter and some light pencil underlining in first few pages, otherwise still quite good used copy, cloth with red spine and off-white boards, boards are warped outwards and lighlty soiled. previous owner's name in ink on front endpaper, dated New Haven 1979. CASERIO, ROBERT L. Plot, story, and the novel: from Dickens and Poe to the modern period. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979, xxi, 304pp., . CONTENTS: The sense of plot -- Narrative reason: The sense of plot and historical experience -- Plot and the point of reversal: Dickens and Poe -- The featuring act as "the rescue": story in Dickens and George Eliot -- The divine inert: Melville -- Plot, purpose, and the modern self -- The story in it: James -- The family plot: Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, and Faulkner. 9780691063829 ISBN 0691063826.