Description: Further DetailsTitle: PlotsCondition: NewDescription: Robert L. Belknap's theory of plot illustrates the active and passive roles literature plays in creating its own dynamic reading experience. Literary narrative enchants us through its development of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of narrative, revealing through its structures, preoccupations, and strategies of representation critical details about how and when a work came into being. Through a rich reading of Shakespeare's King Lear and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Belknap explores the spatial, chronological, and causal aspects of plot, its brilliant manipulation of reader frustration and involvement, and its critical cohesion of characters. He considers Shakespeare's transformation of dramatic plot through parallelism, conflict, resolution, and recognition. He then follows with Dostoevsky's development of the rhetorical and moral devices of nineteenth-century Russian fiction, along with its epistolary and detective genres, to embed the reader in the murder Raskolnikov commits. Dostoevsky's reinvention of the psychological plot was profound, and Belknap effectively challenges the idea that the author abused causality to achieve his ideological conclusion.In a final chapter, Belknap argues that plots teach us novelistic rather than poetic justice. Operating according to their own logic, plots provide us with a compelling way to see and order our world.Author: Robert L. BelknapContributor: Robin Feuer Miller (Introduction by)Country/Region of Manufacture: USEAN: 9780231177832Format: PaperbackGenre: Literary CriticismISBN: 9780231177832ISBN-10: 0231177836Item Height: 210mmItem Length: 140mmLanguage: EnglishPublisher: Columbia University PressRelease Date: 11/07/2017Book Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff LecturesTopic: Poetry & DramaRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Plots
Contributor: Robin Feuer Miller (Introduction by)
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
EAN: 9780231177832
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780231177832
ISBN-10: 0231177836
Release Date: 11/07/2017
Release Year: 2017
Title: Plots
Topic: Poetry & Drama
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Name: Plots
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Comparative Literature, Référence, Shakespeare, Russian & Former Soviet Union
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 8.5 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Drama
Item Length: 0.8 in
Author: Robert L. Belknap
Item Width: 0.6 in
Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
Format: Trade Paperback
