Narrative as rhetoric technique, audiences, ethics, ideology
In Narrative as Rhetoric, James Phelan explores the consequences for narrative theory of two significant principles: (1) narrative is rhetoric because narrative occurs when someone tells a particular story for a particular audience in a particular situation for some particular purpose(s); (2) the re...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press
cop. 1996
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| Colección: | The theory and interpretation of narrative series
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Narrative as rhetoric : reading the spells of Poter's Magic.
- Part one. Narrative progression and narrative discourse : lyric, voice, and readerly judgements: 1. Character and judgement in narrative and in lyric : toward an understanding of audience engagement in The Waves
- 2. Gender politics in the showman's discourse ; or, listening to Vanity Fair
- 3 Voice, distance, temporal perspective, and the dynamics of A Farewell to Arms.
- Part two. Mimetic conventions, ethics, and homodiegetic narration: 4. What Hemingway and a rhetorical theory of narrative can do for each other : the example of My Old Man
- 5. Reexamining reliability : the multiple functions of Nick Carraway
- 6 Sharing secrets.
- Part three. Audiences and ideology: 7. Narratee, narrative audience, and second-person narration : how I--and you?--read Lorrie Moore's "How"
- 8. Narrating the PC controversies : thoughts on Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education
- 9. Toward a rhetorical reader-response criticism : the dificult, the stubborn, and the ending of Beloved.
- Appendix: Why Wayne Booth can't get with the program ; or the nintentional fallacy.
