Somebody telling somebody else : a rhetorical poetics of narrative /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Phelan, James, 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017]
Series:Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of 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.