Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative by Peter Brooks

Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative



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Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative Peter Brooks ebook
ISBN: 0674748921, 9780674748927
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Page: 376
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Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative. Brooks, Peter (1984): Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative. In this frame of mind the reader can take part mentally in a kind of dialogue with a book. Reading for the plot: Design and intention in narrative. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Peter Brooks, in his book Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative describes the act of reading for the plot as “a form of desire that carries us forward, onward, through the text”. €�Of Mice and Memory.” Oral History Review 16.1 (Spring 1988): 91-109. Argued engagement with assumptions about the equivalence of plot and narrative inherent to much of narratology but particularly to Peter Brooks' influential work, Reading for the Plot: Design and intention in narrative. Narrative Comprehension and Film. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Alfred A.

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