The Rhetoric of Fiction / by Wayne C. Booth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Booth, Wayne C.

Contributor:

Wilson, Adrian.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--Technique.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

22 unnumbered pages, 455 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

[Fifth impr.].

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [1965]

Contents:

Part I: Artistic Purity and the Rhetoric of Fiction. Telling and showing; General Rules, I: "True Novels must be Realistic"; General Rules, II: "All Authors should be Objective"; General Rules, III: "True Art ignores the Audience"; General Rules, IV: Emotions, Beliefs, and the Reader's Objectivity; Types of Narration

Part II: The Author's Voice in Fiction. The uses of reliable commentary; Telling as Showing: dramatized narrators, reliable and unreliable; Control of Distance in Jane Austen's Emma

Part III: Impersonal Narration. The Uses of Authorial Narration; The Price of Impersonal Narration, I: Confusion of distance; The Price of Impersonal Narration, II: Henry James and the Unreliable Narrator; The Morality of Impersonal Narration.

Notes:

"©1961 by The University of Chicago ... First text impression 1963. Fifth impression 1965."

"Designed by Adrian Wilson."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-434) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok August 1967 Jerusalem".

Potok Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations.

OCLC:

1577798763