Losing the Plot AC25 So is human history

So is human history

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Losing the Plot AC25 So is human historyAn examination of the relationship between literature and classical Hollywood cinema reveals a profound longing for plot in modernist fiction. The modernist novel sought to escape what Virginia Woolf called the tyranny of plot. Yet even as twentieth century writers pushed against the constraints of plot driven Victorian novels, plot kept its hold on them through the influence of another medium: the cinema. Focusing on the novels of Nella Larsen, Djuna