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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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1 Novels, Novel-Theory, and the History of Objectivity
- CHAPTER 2 Matter, Motion, and the Physical World of the Novel
- CHAPTER 3 Defoe’s Outstretched World
- CHAPTER 4 Place, Type, and Order Plot as Natural History
- CHAPTER 5 Tracing Change and Testing Substances Intimate Objectivity
- CHAPTER 6 Molecular Possibility in Austen’s Plots
- CHAPTER 7 Quixotism, Plot, and the Emergence of Mechanical Objectivity
- CHAPTER 8 Historical Vertigo and the Laws of Animal Motion
- EPILOGUE Plot, History, and Totality in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
- NOTES
- INDEX
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS