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Author Phelan, James, 1951-

Title Experiencing fiction : judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical theory of narrative / James Phelan
Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 249 pages)
Series Theory and interpretation of narrative
Theory and interpretation of narrative series.
Contents Judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical experience of narrative -- Jane Austen's experiment in narrative comedy : the beginning and early middle of Persuasion -- Sethe's choice and Toni Morrison's strategies : the beginning and middle of Beloved -- Chicago criticism, new criticism, cultural thematics, and rhetorical poetics -- Progressing toward surprise : Edith Wharton's "Roman fever" -- Delayed disclosure and the problem of other minds : Ian McEwan's Atonement -- Rhetorical aesthetics within rhetorical poetics -- Interlacings of narrative and lyric : Ernest Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" and Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Narrative in the service of portraiture : Alice Munro's "Prue" and Ann Beattie's "Janus" -- Dramatic dialogue as lyric narrative : Robert Frost's "Home burial" -- Experiencing fiction and its corpus : extensions to nonfiction narrative and synthetic fiction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-242) and index
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SUBJECT Englisch, ... gnd
Subject Narration (Rhetoric)
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
English fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Reader-response criticism.
American literature -- Explication
English literature -- Explication.
American literature -- Explication.
English literature -- Explication.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Reader-response criticism.
Literatur
Leser
Roman
Roman -- englischer -- Narrativik.
Roman -- amerikanischer -- Narrativik.
Narratologi.
Engelska romaner -- historia.
Amerikansk litteratur -- historia.
USA
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007007830
ISBN 9780814272121
0814272126