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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lee, Yoon Sun (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023]
Colección:Alembics.
Temas:
1700-1799
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
Natural history > Philosophy.
Objectivity.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Realism in literature.
Objectivity in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century .
English fiction.
Literature and science.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Literary criticism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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