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Author Platten, David

Title Finding the Plot : Storytelling in Popular Fictions
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

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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
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 ..
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Subject Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
Fiction -- History and criticism.
French fiction -- History and criticism
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
Fiction
French fiction
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Artiaga, Loïc
Migozzi, Jacques
Holmes, Diana
ISBN 9781443865449
1443865443