Literary narrative enchants us through its development of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of narrative. Through readings of King Lear and Crime and Punishment, Robert L. Belknap explores the spatial, chronological, and causal aspects of plot, arguing that plots teach us novelistic rather than poetic justice.


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Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures

Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures is a 6-book series with 6 released primary works first released in 1996 with contributions by Saskia Sassen, David Cannadine, and Partha Chatterjee.

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