Plot, Story, and the Novel : From Dickens and Poe to the Modern Period /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caserio, Robert L., 1944- (Author)
Other Authors: McAndrew, Maura (Designer)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1979.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
English fiction.
American fiction.
FICTION > General.
Intrigues (Theâtre, roman, etc.)
Roman americain > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique.
American fiction > History and criticism.
English fiction > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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

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