The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative

N. J. (Royal Holloway, University of London) Lowe

Cambridge University Press, 2004

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This is the story of how western literature first developed its distinctive taste for the kind of tight, economical plotting still supreme in modern fiction and cinema. The book shows how this taste was formed in Greco-Roman antiquity out of a series of revolutions in storytelling.

ISBN-13
9780521604451
ISBN-10
0521604451
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2004
Publication date
2004-05-20
Pages
308
Dimensions
230x153x28
Weight
476