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The rhetoric of fiction.
- Title
- The rhetoric of fiction.
- Author
- Booth, Wayne C.
- Publication
- [Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1961]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | E-11 5977 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 455 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliography.
- Contents
- 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 -- The author's voice in fiction. The uses of reliable commentary ; Telling as showing: dramatized narrators, reliable and unreliable ; Reliable narrators as dramatized spokesmen for the implied author ; Control of distance in Jane Austen's Emma -- Impersonal narration. The uses of authorial silence ; 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.
- Call Number
- E-11 5977
- LCCN
- 61014947 /L/r83
- OCLC
- 333042
- Author
- Booth, Wayne C.
- Title
- The rhetoric of fiction.
- Imprint
- [Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1961]
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliography.
- Research Call Number
- E-11 5977