Plot, Story, and the Novel : : From Dickens and Poe to the Modern Period / / Robert L. Caserio.
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 No...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1979 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
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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