Title: Reading for the plot
Description: A book with a very formal and academic style which uses examples from novels and plays to discuss plot and how it works in stories.

From the Preface: This is a book about plots and plotting, about how stories come to be ordered in significant form, and also about our desire and need for such orderings. Plot as I conceive it is the design and intention of narrative, what shapes a story and gives it a certain direction or intent of meaning.
Subjects: Fiction, History and criticism, Narration (Rhetoric), Plots (Drama, novel, etc.), Technique, Erzähltechnik, Roman, fiction technique, authorship, literary criticism, stories, writing, Fiction, technique, Intrigues (Théâtre, roman, etc.), Narration, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, Composition & Creative Writing, Rhetoric, REFERENCE, Writing Skills
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century