Plot, Story, and the Novel : : From Dickens and Poe to the Modern Period / / Robert L. Caserio.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Caserio, Robert L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1699
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

Giving a close critical reading to major texts by Dickens, Poe, Eliot, Melville, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner, Professor Caserio provides an historical dimension to the developing fate of plot, story, and the novel. In addition, he challenges the major critical positions of Northrop Frye, Roland Barthes, and Edward Said with regard to the interpretation and evaluation of narrative trends.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One: The Sense of Plot -- Two: Narrative Reason: The Sense of Plot and Historical Experience -- Three: Plot and the Point of Reversal: Dickens and Poe -- Four: The Featuring of Act as "The Rescue": Story in Dickens and George Eliot -- Five: The Divine Inert: Melville -- Six: Plot, Purpose, and the Modern Self -- Seven: The Story in It: James -- Eight: The Family Plot: Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, and Faulkner -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index