10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLOTLESSNESS»
Discover the use of
plotlessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
plotlessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ananda Devi: Feminism, Narration and Polyphony
Acknowledgements 9 Introduction Chapter I Plot and Plotlessness: Toward
Feminine Desire/Quest 1. Subverting Marriage and the Romance Plot:
Redefining Love a. Marriage and Love b. Love Between Sad and Ève c. Love in
La vie de ...
2
Finding Your Plot in a Plotless World: A Little Direction
An. Introduction. to. Plotlessness. M. y life can be summed up in three kinds of
experiences: beauty, darkness, and nakedness. Beauty seems to catch me
napping. I don't seek it out; it breaks through to me in a desert night sky full of an ...
3
Cinema of Alexander Sokurov
'Alexander Nikolaevich goes against this flood'.12 However much plotlessness
may be Sokurov's working ideal, he is – to his own dismay, perhaps – a film-
maker, and not a painter, a still photographer, or other artist dealing in static
media.
Birgit Beumers, Nancy Condee, 2011
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Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
It is the switch to plotlessness, however, that brings a specious clarity which
threatens a work with self-contradiction: either the new state of affairs or the one
preceding it, the plot-filled chapters readers have avidly consumed, must be
deemed ...
5
The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European ...
Russia, then, is synecdochically represented by the hero-narrator, and the
plotlessness of his life, its inability to fit into preexisting literary models,
recapitulates arguments about Russia's self-historicity. But this plotlessness itself,
this apparently ...
6
New Essays on White Noise
But plotlessness is itself a controlled effect of this book because until its
concluding chapters (when Gladney decides that he will put some plot into his life
) the novel is narrated by a man who fears plots in both conspiratorial and literary
senses ...
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Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of ...
(2004,. 141—142). view. that. the. plotlessness. of. Madmen. and. Specialists well
captures “war psychosis as an analog of (dis)organized social life,” only adding
that the disorganization is also in the mind of the playwright himself. In.
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The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers
A Guide for Writers and Readers Ayn Rand. and theme and free will and conflict
and suspense See also Coincidence; Plot-theme; Romanticism Plot-theme
Plotlessness. See Naturalism and plotlessness Propaganda versus art Quo
Vadis ...
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Figures of Simplicity: Sensation and Thinking in Kleist and ...
Rather, as Johnson suggests, “Billy maintains his 'plotlessness' not
spontaneously but through a complex act of filtering. Far from being simply and
naturally pure, he is obsessed with maintaining his own irreproachability in the
eyes of ...
10
A Handbook of Modernism Studies
These novels eroticize movement, forging it as an aesthetic of queerness. This is
nowhere clearer than in the term “wanderlust” in which movement is literally
connected to unrestrained sexuality (98—99). Another reason for plotlessness as
a ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLOTLESSNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
plotlessness is used in the context of the following news items.
An era in which fact is more desired than fiction
... the documentary turn so typical of post-1994 writing, opening itself up to a kind of plotlessness – or plot loss – that is key to relaying, in fiction, ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Jul 15»
Is 'Magic Mike XXL' 'Revolutionary'?
The movie's deliberate plotlessness may be a strength or a weakness, depending on how you parse it, although it's surely intentional; right ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
The Week Ahead: June 30 to July 6
Its cryptic trailer intrigues us with its seeming plotlessness, but it actually follows a pair of salesman on an absurdist journey through the human ... «Boca Raton, Jun 15»
Nkrumah Nkrumah, Wole Soyinka, & Kongi's Harvest (3)
The play's structural plotlessness may as well be a scatter plot for a seeming critique of thematic coherence, and Soyinka's privileged dribbling ... «Vibe Ghana, Jun 15»
God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson: Review
... enough to avoid the pitfalls of plotlessness. The chapters describing Teddy's wartime exploits, in particular, feel over-long and over-detailed. «Toronto Star, May 15»
The Tyranny of Pew-Pew: How Fun Fantasy Violence Became …
The early adventure films of Lucas and Spielberg wiped away the breezy plotlessness of car-chase movies. Conviction to the fantasy was now ... «Village Voice, Apr 15»
Today's television comedies, where girls poop and the brows don't …
While the dominant mode of television comedy is plotlessness, “Silicon Valley” ignores the trend by being almost as much a drama as it is a ... «Binghamton University Pipe Dream, Apr 15»
Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey have never been more relevant …
And during the '70s, when plotlessness and metafiction ran amok, the work of both Stegner and Abbey was political in the broadest sense of ... «Salon, Apr 15»
Kobe Bryant as told through film and television
His career has included some of the most interesting storylines that the league has ever seen, enough plotlessness to form several movies. «Hardwood Paroxysm, Mar 15»
Fifty Shades Of Grey's Dakota Johnson at London premiere with …
The film's plotlessness becomes a burden in the last 20 or so minutes, when something like a climax is needed, but all the film can muster is yet ... «Daily Mail, Feb 15»
