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Book/Printed Material A poetics of plot for the twenty-first century : theorizing unruly narratives

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Title

  • A poetics of plot for the twenty-first century : theorizing unruly narratives

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Richardson, Brian, 1953- author

Created / Published

  • Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]

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.

Headings

  • -  Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc
  • -  Narration (Rhetoric)
  • -  Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (xiv, 198 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PN3378

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019667706

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Richardson, Brian, Author. A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives. [Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2019] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019667706/.

APA citation style:

Richardson, B. (2019) A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives. [Columbus: The Ohio State University Press] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019667706/.

MLA citation style:

Richardson, Brian, Author. A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives. [Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2019] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019667706/>.