Finding the plot : storytelling in popular fictions / edited by Diana Holmes ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holmes, Diana, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French fiction--History and criticism--Congresses.

French fiction.

Popular literature--France--History and criticism.

Popular literature.

France.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vii, 341 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013.

Summary:

"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 stones, 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Theory and Story

Chapter 1 Puissance de 1'intrigue / Raphaël Baroni Baroni, Raphaël 16

Chapter 2 Storyplaying: La Machine a fabriquer ses histoires et à consoler son esprit / Jacques Migozzi Migozzi, Jacques 32

Chapter 3 L'Enjeu du plaisir dans la réception critique du roman popidaire au XIXe siècle / Lise Dumasy-Queffelec Dumasy-Queffelec, Lise 45

Chapter 4 Intrigue, as-tu du coeur? Lecture, plaisir criminal / Paul Bleton Bleton, Paul 60

Chapter 5 Fictionnalisation et storytelling dans la presse tabloid: le cas du personnel politique / Marc Lits Lits, Marc 77

Chapter 6 On the Art of Plotting, and the Reader as Co-conspirator: Pierre Signac's Monsieur Cauchemar (1960) / David Platten Platten, David 91

Part II Story/History

Chapter 7 Les Nomades de la préhistoire: personnages, récits, images et lecteurs / Marc Guillaumie Guillaumie, Marc 106

Chapter 8 Can a Tale be Telling Without a Plot? Daudet and the Perils of the Popular / Tim Farrant Farrant, Tim 119

Chapter 9 Emplotting the Fair: Popular Fiction and the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition (1893) / Brenda Hollweg Hollweg, Brenda 135

Chapter 10 Picaresque Plots and Improper Heroines: Popular Historical Sagas in 20th Century France / Diana Holmes Holmes, Diana 152

Chapter 11 Telling Tales about World War II in Philippe Grimbert's Un Secret / Susan Bainbrigge Bainbrigge, Susan 165

Part III Bending Genres

Chapter 12 Le Plaisir du polar et ses paradoxes / Natacha Levet Levet, Natacha 180

Chapter 13 Trans-Bond-Express, ou les plaisirs mobiles (1953-1965) / Loïc Artiaga Artiaga, Loïc 193

Chapter 14 Courir apres les intrigues... dynamique narrative et plaisir du récit dans les fascicules pour la jeunesse des années 1900-1930 / Matthieu Letourneux Letourneux, Matthieu 206

Chapter 15 Inevitable Plots in the Symbolist Novel? Georges Rodenbach's Bruges-la-morte / Richard Hibbitt Hibbitt, Richard 218

Chapter 16 Finding the Plot in French Chanson: Edith Piaf and the Narrative Song / David Looseley Looseley, David 234

Chapter 17 Rewriting the Plot: Daniele Sallenave's Fiction Reworked / Imogen Long Long, Imogen 247

Part IV In a Spin: Storytelling in the Postmodern Era

Chapter 18 Les Fans et les histoires: construction eontemporaine d'un paradigms du récit comme lien / Anne Besson Besson, Anne 262

Chapter 19 Du coeur au prisme: mise en intrigue et réflexivité dans la science-fiction contemporaine / Marc Atallah Atallah, Marc 274

Chapter 20 Telling New Stories? Twilight Fan Fiction Pairing Bella and Alice / Malin Isaksson Isaksson, Malin 292

Chapter 21 Dan Brown, or the Paraliterary as the Great Code of Literature / Alexandra Ivanovitch Ivanovitch, Alexandra 306.

Notes:

Papers based on a conference held in 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1443842389

OCLC:

819135565

Publisher Number:

99955229726