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

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:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbus, [Ohio] : The Ohio State University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In Somebody Telling Somebody Else , 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 accomplish particular purposes in relation to particular audiences.

Contents:

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

PART 1 · ON THE EXPLANATORY POWER OF RHETORICAL POETICS

INTRODUCTION Principles of Rhetorical Poetics

CHAPTER 1 Somebody Telling Somebody Else: Authors, Resources, Audiences

CHAPTER 2 Somebody Telling Somebody Else: Audiences and Probable Impossibilities

PART 2 · RESOURCES: GENERIC FRAMES, TECHNIQUES, OCCASIONS-AND SYNERGIES

INTRODUCTION Constructing a Rhetorical Poetics

CHAPTER 3 Probability in Fiction and Nonfiction: Pride and Prejudice and The Year of Magical Thinking

CHAPTER 4 Engaging the Stubborn: Narrative Speed and Readerly Judgments in Franz Kafka's "Das Urteil"

CHAPTER 5 Estranging Unreliability, Bonding Unreliability, and the Ethics of Lolita

CHAPTER 6 The How and Why of Backward Narration in Martin Amis's Time's Arrow

CHAPTER 7 "I affirm nothing": Lord Jim and the Uses of Textual Recalcitrance

CHAPTER 8 Toni Morrison's Determinate Ambiguity in "Recitatif"

CHAPTER 9 Conversational and Authorial Disclosure in Dialogue Narrative: George Higgins's The Friends of Eddie Coyle and John O'Hara's "Appearances"

CHAPTER 10 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

CHAPTER 11 Reliability, Dialogue, and Crossover Effects in Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Third and Final Continent"

CHAPTER 12 Reliable, Unreliable, and Deficient Narration: Toward a Rhetorical Poetics

CHAPTER 13 Occasions of Narration and the Functions of Narrative Segments in Enduring Love

CONCLUSION Reflections on the How and Why of Rhetorical Poetics

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8142-7523-0

OCLC:

1001288091