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Author Tilley, Allen

Title Plot snakes and the dynamics of narrative experience / Allen Tilley
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 162 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. The Plot Snake. General Plot Form. The Origins of Plot in the Life Cycle -- 2. Narrative Mode in Models of Evolving Consciousness. Frye's Modes as Modes of Experience. Nebuchadnezzar's Dream -- 3. Low Mimesis. "All in the Family": Low Mimetic Plot. A Modal Analysis of She Stoops to Conquer. Some Modern Low Mimetic Political Novels -- 4. High Mimesis: Freud, Sophocles, Shakespeare, and the Plot of Analysis -- 5. Romance. Romance in General: "Allerleirauh" A Clutch of Romances. Shakespeare's Romances. A Generic Map of Romance -- 6. Irony and Myth. Plot and Antiplot: Waiting for Godot. Synchronic Form in Titus Andronicus. The Counterculture Trickster: Mythicized Synchronic Plot -- 7. Modes, Myths, Dreams, and Narrative Experience
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158) and index
Notes English
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Subject Narration (Rhetoric)
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
Handlung Literatur
Form Electronic book
LC no. 92005428
ISBN 0813024021
9780813024028