| Description |
xiv, 265 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Ways of beginning -- 2. Rhetorical moments Performative uncertainty in Schiller's Mary Stuart and Sarraute's The use of speech -- Tropological uncertainty in Rabelais's Cinq livres -- 3. Facts and figures Figures into facts: Kleist's Penthesilea -- Facts into figures: Büchner's Danton's death -- The name of the self: Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's daughter" -- 4. The stuff of rhetoric The dismembered metaphor: Hoffmann's "The sandman" -- The turn of the trope: Kafka's "The bridge" -- Literal extinction: Calvino's "The dinosaurs" -- 5. Constructive reading Rhetorical space: Calvino's "All at one point" -- Changing images: Goethe's Iphigenia in Tauris -- Nietzsche's rhetoric of "right reading" -- 6. The rhetoric of ethical engagement The rhetoric of life and death: Flannery O'Connor's "The river" -- The shady character of literature: H.C. Andersen's "The shadow" -- Rhetoric as remedy: Boccaccio's Decameron |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Imagination (Rhetoric)
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Reading.
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Rhetoric.
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| LC no. |
88047732 |
| ISBN |
0801421829 (alk. paper) |
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