Somebody telling somebody else : a rhetorical poetics of narrative / James Phelan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phelan, James, 1951- author.

Series:

Theory and interpretation of narrative series

Theory and interpretation of narrative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American fiction.

English fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English fiction.

Physical Description:

xv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-268) and index.

ISBN:

9780814213452

0814213456

9780814254318

0814254314

OCLC:

987376278