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Plot (narrative)

About: Plot (narrative) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2730 publications have been published within this topic receiving 26941 citations.


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01 Jan 1991
TL;DR: Generations as mentioned in this paper is a succession of generational biographies, beginning in 1584 and encompassing every-one through the children of today, with each generation belonging to one of four types, and these types repeat sequentially in a fixed pattern.
Abstract: Hailed by national leaders as politically diverse as former Vice President Al Gore and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Generations has been heralded by reviewers as a brilliant, if somewhat unsettling, reassessment of where America is heading.William Strauss and Neil Howe posit the history of America as a succession of generational biographies, beginning in 1584 and encompassing every-one through the children of today. Their bold theory is that each generation belongs to one of four types, and that these types repeat sequentially in a fixed pattern. The vision of Generations allows us to plot a recurring cycle in American history -- a cycle of spiritual awakenings and secular crises -- from the founding colonists through the present day and well into this millenium.Generations is at once a refreshing historical narrative and a thrilling intuitive leap that reorders not only our history books but also our expectations for the twenty-first century.

1,699 citations

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01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the study of plot notes in the context of reading for the plot, and they propose a model for narrative understanding based on Freud's Masterplot.
Abstract: Preface 1. Reading for the Plot 2. Narrative Desire 3. The Novel and the Guillotine, or Fathers and Sons in Le Rouge et le noir 4. Freud's Masterplot: A Model for Narrative 5. Repetition, Repression, and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations 6. The Mark of the Beast: Prostitution, Serialization, and Narrative 7. Retrospective Lust, or Flaubert's Perversities 8. Narrative Transaction and Transference 9. An Unreadable Report: Conrad's Heart of Darkness 10. Fictions of the Wolf Man: Freud and Narrative Understanding 11. Incredulous Narration: Absalom, Absalom! In Conclusion: Endgames and the Study of Plot Notes

1,111 citations

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01 Jan 1927
TL;DR: Forster's ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL as discussed by the authors is an attempt to examine the novel afresh, rejecting the traditional methods of classification by chronology or subject-matter, and pares down the novel to its essential elements as he sees them: story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern and rhythm.
Abstract: ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL is a unique attempt to examine the novel afresh, rejecting the traditional methods of classification by chronology or subject-matter. Forster pares down the novel to its essential elements as he sees them: story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern and rhythm. He illustrates each aspect with examples from their greatest exponents, not hesitating as he does so to pass controversial judgement on the works of, among others, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens and Henry James. Full of Forster's renowned wit and perceptiveness, ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL offers a rare insight into the art of fiction from one of our greatest novelists. 'His is a book to encourage dreaming.' Virginia Woolf

1,084 citations

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01 Jan 1989
TL;DR: The Poetics of the Open Work as discussed by the authors is an analysis of Poetic Language and its relationship to openness, information, communication, and social commitment in the visual arts, as well as the structure of bad taste.
Abstract: 1. The Poetics of the Open Work 2. Analysis of Poetic Language 3. Openness, Information, Communication 4. The Open Work in the Visual Arts 5. Chance and Plot: Television and Aesthetics 6. Form as Social Commitment 7. Form and Interpretation in Luigi Pareyson's Aesthetics 8. Two Hypotheses about the Death of Art 9. The Structure of Bad Taste 10. Series and Structure 11. The Death of the Gruppo 63 Notes Index

657 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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202153
2020101
201992
2018100
201793