Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative

A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life.

• Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method
• Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film
• God: A Biography
• S/Z: An Essay
• The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (with a New Epilogue)
• The Blind Assassin: A Novel
• The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
• Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
• Poetics of Prose
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