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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York
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. Intro -- Other Books by This...
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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. Intro -- Other Books by This Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Preface -- 1: Reading for the Plot -- 2: Narrative Desire -- 3: The Novel and the Guillotine, or Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir -- 4: Freud's Masterplot: A Model for Narrative -- 5: Repetition, Repression, and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations -- 6: The Mark of the Beast: Prostitution, Serialization, and Narrative -- 7: Retrospective Lust, or Flaubert's Perversities -- 8: Narrative Transaction and Transference -- 9: An Unreadable Report: Conrad's Heart of Darkness -- 10: Fictions of the Wolf Man: Freud and Narrative Understanding -- 11: Incredulous Narration: Absalom, Absalom! -- In Conclusion: Endgames and the Study of Plot -- Notes.
