2016 Reports

Columbia University Press Publishes Robert L. Belknap’s PLOTS

Columbia University Press has published Robert L. Belknap’s book, PLOTS, which he first delivered as the Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures. Belknap’s theory of plot illustrates the active and passive role literature plays in creating its own dynamic reading experience. Literary narrative enchants us through its development of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of narrative, revealing through its structures, preoccupations, and strategies of representation critical details about how and when a work came into being.