“…This study looks at the performance of conversion narratives and argues that the performance itself is central to the efficacy of the conversion. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The synthetic aspect / Matthew Clark --The mimetic aspect / Matthew Clark -- The thematic aspect / Matthew Clark -- Narrative as rhetoric and the MTS model / James Phelan -- The mimetic, the synthetic, and the criterion of correspondence; or audiences, the mimetic illusion, and ghosts / James Phelan -- The thematic and the relation between comprehensiveness and correspondence / James Phelan -- MTS, fictionality, and nonfiction: Tobias Wolff's "Old China" / James Phelan -- "Yes, but . . ." / Matthew Clark…”