Reading for the plot

Description:

A book with a very formal and academic style which uses examples from novels and plays to discuss plot and how it works in stories. From the Preface: This is a book about plots and plotting, about how stories come to be ordered in significant form, and also about our desire and need for such orderings. Plot as I conceive it is the design and intention of narrative, what shapes a story and gives it a certain direction or intent of meaning.

subjects: Fiction,  History and criticism,  Narration (Rhetoric),  Plots (Drama, novel, etc.),  Technique,  Erzähltechnik,  Roman,  fiction technique,  authorship,  literary criticism,  stories,  writing,  Fiction, technique,  Intrigues (Théâtre, roman, etc.),  Narration,  LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES,  Composition & Creative Writing,  Rhetoric,  REFERENCE

Times: 19th century,  20th century