The rhetoric of fiction.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1961]Description: 455 p. 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.3
LOC classification:
  • PN3451 .B6 1961
Contents:
Artistic purity and the rhetoric of fiction -- 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 authors's voice in fiction -- The uses of reliable commentary -- Telling as showing: dramatized narrators, reliable and unreliable -- 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.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks PN3451.B6 1961 1 Available 33710000480314

Includes bibliography.

WAR, NEWBERY,

Artistic purity and the rhetoric of fiction -- 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 authors's voice in fiction -- The uses of reliable commentary -- Telling as showing: dramatized narrators, reliable and unreliable -- 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.