The Natural Laws of Plot : : How Things Happen in Realist Novels / / Yoon Sun Lee.
Is plot a line, an arc, or a shape? None of these. Rather than thinking of plot as a sequence of events or actions put into place solely through human agency against the backdrop of setting, this book questions why we should distinguish between plot and setting—and indeed, whether we can make such a...
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