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The natural laws of plot : how things happen in realist novels /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lee, Yoon Sun (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Colección:Alembics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t CONTENTS --  |t CHAPTER 1 Novels, Novel-Theory, and the History of Objectivity --  |t CHAPTER 2 Matter, Motion, and the Physical World of the Novel --  |t CHAPTER 3 Defoe's Outstretched World --  |t CHAPTER 4 Place, Type, and Order Plot as Natural History --  |t CHAPTER 5 Tracing Change and Testing Substances Intimate Objectivity --  |t CHAPTER 6 Molecular Possibility in Austen's Plots --  |t CHAPTER 7 Quixotism, Plot, and the Emergence of Mechanical Objectivity --  |t CHAPTER 8 Historical Vertigo and the Laws of Animal Motion --  |t EPILOGUE Plot, History, and Totality in Zadie Smith's White Teeth --  |t NOTES --  |t INDEX --  |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
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