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  • Paperback: 392 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press; New edition edition (23 April 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0674748921
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674748927
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.2 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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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.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Can be useful, but mostly boring, 28 Oct 2008
This book gives some pointers towards using Russian Formalism, Roland Barthes's structuralist theory, and Freudian Theory for hermeneutics. Unfortunately, it sounds boring and rehashed.

Brooks's exegeses of specific novels are hard to read if you're not reading them as the same time; it is too minutely textual. However, the parallel between the detective novel and Freud's Wolf Man mirrored by Todorov's 'fabula/sjuzet' theory is of some interest.

Perhaps this book can also be useful if you're looking for quotable definitions of 'plot' and 'narrative'.
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