Title The rhetoric of fictionality : narrative theory and the idea of fiction / Richard Walsh

Published Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2007] ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) : illustrations Series Theory and interpretation of narrative Theory and interpretation of narrative series. Contents The pragmatics of narrative fictionality -- Fictionality and mimesis -- Fabula and fictionality in narrative theory -- The narrator and the frame of fiction -- The rhetoric of representation and narrative voice -- The narrative imagination across media -- Narrative creativity : the novelist as medium -- 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."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Narration (Rhetoric) Fiction -- Technique. Ideology and literature. Fiction -- Technique Ideology and literature Narration (Rhetoric) Erzähltechnik Erzähltheorie Rhetorik Fiktion Narrativik. Fiktion. Erzähltheorie. Rhetorische Analyse. Fiktion. Narratologi. Romaner. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2007022127 ISBN 9780814272169 0814272169

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