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Plots

By Robin Feuer Miller (introduced by)

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Hardcover:

9780231177825 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 17, 2016, cover price $30.00

Plot, Story, and the Novel: From Dickens and Poe to the Modern Period

Product Description: Giving a close critical reading to major texts by Dickens, Poe, Eliot, Melville, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner, Professor Caserio provides an historical dimension to the developing fate of plot, story, and the novel...read more

By Robert L. Caserio

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9780691648217 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $112.50 | About this edition: Giving a close critical reading to major texts by Dickens, Poe, Eliot, Melville, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner, Professor Caserio provides an historical dimension to the developing fate of plot, story, and the novel.

9780691063829 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 1, 1979, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Studies narrative trends and looks at the writings of authors including Dickens, Eliot, Conrad, Lawrence, Woolf, and Faulkner to examine the literary movement away from conventional concepts of plot and the representation of action

9780023045004, titled "Insects in Perspective" | Prentice Hall, February 1, 1978, cover price $46.15 | also contains Insects in Perspective

Paperback:

9780691627977 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 8, 2015, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Giving a close critical reading to major texts by Dickens, Poe, Eliot, Melville, James, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner, Professor Caserio provides an historical dimension to the developing fate of plot, story, and the novel.

Writing Blockbuster Plots: A Step-by-step Guide to Mastering Plot, Structure, and Scene

Product Description: Plotting a story filled with memorable, engaging scenes from beginning to end can feel like an insurmountable challenge. Having the right plan - and the tools to execute it - can make all the difference. Writing Blockbuster Plots pulls back the curtain on story structure with step-by-step strategies and visuals that turn plotting and scene writing into a no-stress endeavor...read more

By Martha Alderson

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9781599639796, titled "Writing Blockbuster Plots: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering Plot, Structure & Scene" | Writers Digest Books, March 31, 2016, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Plotting a story filled with memorable, engaging scenes from beginning to end can feel like an insurmountable challenge.

Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction: Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots

Product Description: In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and deeper level, throughout the text. In this volume, Dan Shen systematically investigates how stylistic analysis is indispensable for uncovering this covert progression through rhetorical narrative criticism...read more

By Dan Shen

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Hardcover:

9780415635486 | Routledge, November 13, 2013, cover price $145.00

Paperback:

9781138671348 | Routledge, March 3, 2016, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and deeper level, throughout the text.

Writing Deep Scenes: Plotting Your Story Through Action, Emotion, and Theme

first edition 1981 copyright

By Jordan Rosenfeld

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Paperback:

9781599638836 | Writers Digest Books, October 2, 2015, cover price $17.99

9780425074831, titled "Please Don't Shoot My Dog: The Autobiography of Jackie Cooper" | Reissue edition (Berkley Pub Group, February 1, 1985), cover price $3.95 | also contains Please Don''t Shoot My Dog: The Autobiography of Jackie Cooper | About this edition: first edition 1981 copyright

From Fairy Tale to Film Screenplay: Working With Plot Genotypes

Product Description: This book offers a detailed exploration of the plot genotype, the functional structure behind the plots of classical fairy tales. By understanding how plot genotypes are used, the reader or creative writer will obtain a much better understanding of many other types of fiction, including short stories, dramatic texts and Hollywood screenplays...read more

By Terence Patrick Murphy

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9781137552020 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 14, 2015, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This book offers a detailed exploration of the plot genotype, the functional structure behind the plots of classical fairy tales.

The Fairytale and Plot Structure

Product Description: From the time of the Classical era of Greece and Rome, literary theorists have been concerned with the subject of how the plots of stories are organized. In The Poetics, Aristotle put forward the crucial idea that a plot must possess sufficient amplitude to allow a probable or necessary succession of particular actions to produce a significant change in the fortune of the main character...read more

By Terence Patrick Murphy

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9781137547071 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 7, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: From the time of the Classical era of Greece and Rome, literary theorists have been concerned with the subject of how the plots of stories are organized.

Plot Building: Classroom-Ready Materials for Teaching Writing and Literary Analysis Skills in Grades 4 to 8

Product Description: Let Them Write: Plot Building focuses on conflict, suspense and narrative structure. Students practice first-drafting, editing, polishing and sharing original scenes and stories built around these three important elements of storytelling.

By Arlene F. Marks and Bette J. Walker

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9781475818383 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, July 16, 2015, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Let Them Write: Plot Building focuses on conflict, suspense and narrative structure.

Plot Perfect: How to Build Unforgettable Stories Scene by Scene

By Paula Munier

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9781599638140 | Writers Digest Books, November 14, 2014, cover price $17.99

Building Your Story: A Guide to Structure and Plot

Product Description: A lively and comprehensive guide on the importance of structuring your plot with in-depth looks at different techniques and lots of practical advice, including at least one writing exercise in each chapter on topics such as building tension, staging drama, identifying and rectifying structural issues and internal and external plot journeys...read more

By Kelly Lawrence

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9781782796084 | Natl Book Network, August 29, 2014, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A lively and comprehensive guide on the importance of structuring your plot with in-depth looks at different techniques and lots of practical advice, including at least one writing exercise in each chapter on topics such as building tension, staging drama, identifying and rectifying structural issues and internal and external plot journeys.

Mimi and the Wolves 1: The Dream

By Alabaster Pizzo (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780521394666, titled "From Text to Performance in the Elizabethan Theatre: Preparing the Play for the Stage" | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $83.99 | also contains From Text to Performance in the Elizabethan Theatre: Preparing the Play for the Stage

Shakespeare and the Story Aspects of Creation

Product Description: It is a commonplace of Shakespeare criticism that he invented few of the plots of his plays and the sources he drew upon have been often and rewardingly studied. The emphasis of this book, however, is not on sources but on what may be called Shakespeare's story-telling technique especially as seen in the articulation and pacing of events...read more

By Joan Rees

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9781472506542, titled "Shakespeare and the Story: Aspects of Creation" | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 8, 2014, cover price $128.00 | About this edition: It is a commonplace of Shakespeare criticism that he invented few of the plots of his plays and the sources he drew upon have been often and rewardingly studied.

9780485111798, titled "Shakespeare and the Story: Aspects of Creation" | Athlone Pr, June 1, 1978, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: It is a commonplace of Shakespeare criticism that he invented few of the plots of his plays and the sources he drew upon have been often and rewardingly studied.

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9780485120417 | Athlone Pr, June 1, 1978, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: It is a commonplace of Shakespeare criticism that he invented few of the plots of his plays and the sources he drew upon have been often and rewardingly studied.

Developing Story Ideas

By Michael Rabiger

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Hardcover:

9781138134560 | 2 edition (Focal Pr, November 24, 2015), cover price $165.00

Paperback:

9780240807362 | 2 edition (Focal Pr, October 21, 2005), cover price $25.95

9780240803982 | Focal Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $29.95

Finding the Plot: Storytelling in Popular Fictions

By David Platten (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781443842389 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, January 1, 2013, cover price $84.95

The New Book of Plots: Constructing Engaging Narratives for Oral and Written Storytelling

By Loren Neimi

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9781935166634 | 1 edition (Parkhurst Brothers Inc Pub, September 28, 2012), cover price $17.00

The Plot Whisperer Workbook: Step-by-step Exercises to Help You Create Compelling Stories

Product Description: Turn lackluster plots into irresistible stories!When it comes to writing bestsellers, it's all about the plot. But creating a captivating storyline that mesmerizes your audience until the very end is easier said than done. With thousands of engaging books on the shelf, you'll need to set yours apart by developing unique scenarios that leave readers wondering what happens next...read more

By Martha Alderson

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9781440542749 | Workbook edition (Adams Media Corp, August 18, 2012), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Turn lackluster plots into irresistible stories!

Detecting Detection: International Perspectives on the Uses of a Plot

Product Description: We indulge our fascination with detection in many ways, only some of which occur in the detective story. In fact, modern fiction regularly uses elements of a detective narrative to tell another story altogether, to engage characters, narrators, and readers with questions of identity, with examinations of moral and ethical reasoning, with critiques of social and political injustices, and with the metaphysics of meaning itself...read more

By Deborah Shaller (editor)

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9781441149367 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 14, 2012, cover price $130.00

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9781441100788 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 14, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: We indulge our fascination with detection in many ways, only some of which occur in the detective story.

20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them

By Ronald B. Tobias

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9781599635378, titled "20 Master Plots And How to Build Them: And How to Build Them" | 2 edition (Writers Digest Books, January 12, 2012), cover price $16.99

9781582972398 | Writers Digest Books, January 1, 2003, cover price $14.99

The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master

Product Description: When it comes to writing bestsellers, it's all about the plot. Trouble is, plot is where most writers fall down--but you don't have to be one of them. With this book, you'll learn how to create stories that build suspense, reveal character, and engage readers--one scene at a time...read more

By Martha Alderson

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9781440525889 | Adams Media Corp, October 15, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When it comes to writing bestsellers, it's all about the plot.

The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life

A guide to the art of storytelling explains how to use such elements as characterization, suspense, and conflict as a part of successful plot development.

By Noah Lukeman

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Hardcover:

9780312284671 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, July 1, 2002), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A guide to the art of storytelling explains how to use such elements as characterization, suspense, and conflict as a part of successful plot development.

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9780312309282 | Reprint edition (Griffin, June 1, 2003), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A fiction-writing 'workshop' analyzes the elements of classic storytelling, from characterization and journey to suspense, conflict, and context, advising writers of any skill level on how to combine them to produce transcendent work.

Miscellaneous:

9781429990844 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, September 28, 2010), cover price $9.99

From Text to Performance in the Elizabethan Theatre: Preparing the Play for the Stage

By David Bradley

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Hardcover:

9780521394666 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $83.99 | also contains Mimi and the Wolves 1: The Dream

Paperback:

9780521109444 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 6, 2009), cover price $44.99

The Screenplay Workbook: The Writing Before the Writing

By Tom Mungovan and Jeremy Robinson

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Paperback:

9781580650533 | Lone Eagle Pub Co, October 1, 2003, cover price $18.95

Miscellaneous:

9780307875204, titled "Screenplay Workbook: The Writing Before the Writing" | Lone Eagle Pub Co, June 9, 2010, cover price $18.95

Successful Novel Plotting

Product Description: What is it about a good book that hooks the reader and makes them want more? A good plot. Every best-selling author from Agatha Christie to Terry Pratchett knows the importance of a strong story. But for the budding author it can be daunting and even confusing...read more

By Jean Saunders

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9781906373627 | Accent Pr, March 2, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: What is it about a good book that hooks the reader and makes them want more?

The Mind Of Your Story: Discover What Drives Your Fiction

Product Description: The Best Fiction Has a Mind of Its Own&break;&break;How do you create a successful story that captures readers from its first page and never lets them go until the final page is turned?&break;&break;The secret is a delicate balancing act between allowing a story a mind of its own and holding tightly to its reins...read more

By Lisa Lenard-Cook

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9781582974880 | Writers Digest Books, April 23, 2008, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: The Best Fiction Has a Mind of Its Own&break;&break;How do you create a successful story that captures readers from its first page and never lets them go until the final page is turned?

Narrative, Perception, Language and Faith

Many, from a wide range of disciplines, claim that narrative is fundamental to being human. This book presents a coherent thesis to that effect, connecting the Joke and the Story (with comedy and tragedy imply) not only with our perception of the world, with the character of faith and with our faith in each other.

By E. Wright

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9780230573727 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 18, 2007, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Many, from a wide range of disciplines, claim that narrative is fundamental to being human.

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