Contents:Somebody telling somebody else: authors, resources, audiences --
Somebody telling somebody else: audiences and probable impossibilities --
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.
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