| Finding the Plot: Storytelling in Popular Fictions Contributor(s): Artiago Loïc (Editor), Holmes, Diana (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1443842389 ISBN-13: 9781443842389 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $84.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 808.3 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.9" W x 8.3" (1.30 lbs) 345 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Plot," writes Peter Brooks, "is so basic to our very experience of reading, and indeed to our articulation of experience in general, that criticism has often passed it over in silence..." (Reading for the Plot, xi). Finding the Plot both explores and helps to redress this critical neglect. The book brings together an international group of scholars to address the nature, effects and specific pleasures of consuming stories. If the central focus is on France and popular literary fiction, the book's scope - like contemporary fiction itself - observes no national frontiers, and extends across a variety of media. The book addresses both the empirical question of which genres and types of text have been and are most "popular," and the theoretical questions of how plots work, what pleasures they offer to readers, and why it matters that the plot should not be lost. |