94 Pages
by Routledge

94 Pages
by Routledge

94 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1970, this work examines ‘Plot’ as a literary term. It traces the two and contrary ways of considering the word: the Aristotelian and the neo-classic interpretations. It then goes on to examine the methods by which the idea of plot has been expanded in modern criticism through a proliferation of critical terms clustering around a vital idea of poiesis , and through the... Read more

General Editor’s Preface

1. Plot: The Basic Problem

2. The Plot and Mimesis

3. The Struggle to Replace Plot: Poiesis and Time

4. Practical Plotting

5. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Elizabeth Dipple