Reading for the plot
About this book
A book with a very formal and academic style which uses examples from novels and plays to discuss plot and how it works in stories.
From the Preface: This is a book about plots and plotting, about how stories come to be ordered in significant form, and also about our desire and need for such orderings. Plot as I conceive it is the design and intention of narrative, what shapes a story and gives it a certain direction or intent of meaning.
Subjects
- authorship
- composition & creative writing
- erzähltechnik
- fiction
- fiction technique
- fiction, technique
- history and criticism
- intrigues (théâtre, roman, etc.)
- language arts & disciplines
- literary criticism
- narration
- narration (rhetoric)
- plots (drama, novel, etc.)
- reference
- rhetoric
- roman
- stories
- technique
- writing
- writing skills