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Somebody telling somebody else : a rhetorical poetics of narrative /
"In Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative, James Phelan proposes a paradigm shift for narrative theory, a turn from viewing narrative as a structure to viewing it as a rhetorical action in which a teller selectively deploys the resources of storytelling in order to a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. On the explanatory power of rhetorical poetics. Introduction. Principles of rhetorical poetics. Somebody telling somebody else: authors, resources, audiences
- Somebody telling somebody else: audiences and probable impossibilities
- Part 2. Resources : generic frames, techniques, occasions--and synergies. Introduction. Constructing a rhetorical poetics. Probability in fiction and nonfiction: pride and prejudice and the year of magical thinking
- Engaging the stubborn: narrative speed and readerly judgments in Franz Kafka's "Das Urteil"
- Estranging unreliability, bonding unreliability, and the ethics of Lolita
- The how and why of backward narration in Martin Amis's Time's arrow
- "I affirm nothing": Lord Jim and the uses of textual recalcitrance
- Toni Morrison's determinate ambiguity in "Recitatif"
- Conversational and authorial disclosure in dialogue narrative: George Higgins's The friends of Eddie Coyle and John O'Hara's "Appearances"
- The implied author, deficient narration, and nonfiction narrative: Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Jean-Dominique Bauby's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Reliability, dialogue, and crossover effects in Jhumpa Lahiri's "The third and final continent"
- Reliable, unreliable, and deficient narration: toward a rhetorical poetics
- Occasions of narration and the functions of narrative segments in enduring love
- Conclusion: Reflections on the how and why of rhetorical poetics.