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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holmes, Diana, 1949- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plots (Drama, novel, etc.).

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

French fiction--History and criticism.

French fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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 stories. If the central focus is on France and popular literary fiction, the boo...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART 1: THEORY AND STORY; CHAPTER ONE - PUISSANCE DE L''INTRIGUE; CHAPTER TWO - STORYPLAYING. LA MACHINE A FABRIQUER SES HISTOIRES ET A APAISER SON ESPRIT; CHAPTER THREE - L''ENJEU DU PLAISIR DANS LA RECEPTION CRITIQUE DU ROMAN POPULAIRE AU XIXE SIECLE; CHAPTER FOUR - INTRIGUE, AS-TU DU COEUR?; CHAPTER FIVE - FICTIONNALISATION ET STORYTELLING DANS LA PRESSE TABLOID; CHAPTER SIX - ON THE ART OF PLOTTING, AND THE READER AS CO-CONSPIRATOR; PART II: STORY/HISTORY ; CHAPTER SEVEN - LES NOMADES DE LA PREHISTOIRE

CHAPTER EIGHT - CAN A TALE BE TELLING WITHOUT A PLOT?CHAPTER NINE - EMPLOTTING THE FAIR; CHAPTER TEN - PICARESQUE PLOTS AND IMPROPER HEROINES; CHAPTER ELEVEN - TELLING TALES ABOUT WORLD WAR TEO IN PHILIPPE GRIMBERT''S UN SECRET; PART III: BENDING GENRES; CHAPTER TWELVE - LE PLAISIR DU POLAR ET SES PARADOXES; CHAPTER THIRTEEN - TRANS-BOND-EXPRESS, OU LES PLAISIRS MOBILES (1953-1965); CHAPTER FOURTEEN - COURIR APRES LES INTRIGUES ...; CHAPTER FIFTEEN - INEVITABLE PLOTS IN THE SYMBOLIST NOVEL?; CHAPTER SIXTEEN - FINDING THE PLOT IN FRENCH CHANSON; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - REWRITING THE PLOT

PART IV: IN A SPIN: STORYTELLING IN THE POSTMODERN ERACHAPTER EIGHTEEN - LES FANS ET LES HISTOIRES; CHAPTER NINETEEN - DU COEUR AU PRISME; CHAPTER TWENTY - TELLING NEW STORIES?; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - DAN BROWN, OR THE PARALITERARY AS THE GREAT CODE OF LITERATURE; POSTFACE - FINDING THE PLOT; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4438-6544-3

OCLC:

887507802