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Somebody Telling Somebody Else : a rhetorical poetics of narrative / James Phelan

By: Phelan, JamesContributor(s): Phelan, JamesMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :Raghav Books Private Limited | :A-184 Nand Gram Ghaziabad Series: Theory and interpretation of narrative seriesPublication details: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press , [2017]Description: xv, 274p. 24cmISBN: 9780814254318Subject(s): Literature | Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures | Narration (Rhetoric) | American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing | English fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | REFERENCE -- Writing Skills | LITERARY CRITICISM -- GeneralDDC classification: 808.036 PHE

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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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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