| Description |
x, 194 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Theory and interpretation of narrative |
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Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. The Pragmatics of Narrative Fictionality -- Ch. 2. Fictionality and Mimesis -- Ch. 3. Fabula and Fictionality in Narrative Theory -- Ch. 4. The Narrator and the Frame of Fiction -- Ch. 5. The Rhetoric of Representation and Narrative Voice -- Ch. 6. The Narrative Imagination across Media -- Ch. 7. Narrative Creativity: The Novelist as Medium -- Ch. 8. Reader Involvement: Why We Wept for Little Nell |
| Summary |
"Narrative theory has always been centrally concerned with fiction, yet it has tended to treat fictions as if they were merely the framed or disowned equivalents of nonfictional narratives. A rhetorical perspective upon fictionality, however, sees it as a direct way of meaning and a distinct kind of communicative gesture. The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction by Richard Walsh argues the merit of such a perspective and demonstrates its radical implications for narrative theory." "The rhetorical model of fictionality advanced in this book offers up new areas of inquiry into the purchase of fictiveness itself upon questions of narrative interpretation. It urges a fundamental reconception of the apparatus of narrative theory by theorizing the conditions of significance that make fictions conceivable and worthwhile."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
"50th, 1957-2007, Ohio State", on cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index |
| Subject |
Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Fiction -- Technique.
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Ideology and literature.
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| LC no. |
2007022127 |
| ISBN |
9780814210697 cloth alkaline paper |
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0814210694 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780814291467 cdrom |
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0814291465 cd-rom |
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