The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels

by Yoon Sun Lee

Is plot a line, an arc, or a shape? None of these. Rather than thinking of plot as a sequence of events or actions put into place solely through human agency against the backdrop of setting, this book questions why we should distinguish between plot and setting--and indeed, whether we can make such a distinction. After all, plot, Yoon Sun Lee contends, cannot be disentangled from the material setting in which it takes place.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512823406
• ISBN13: 9781512823400
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"