The rhetoric of fiction.
Material type: TextPublication details: [Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1961]Description: 455 p. 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- 808.3
- PN3451 .B6 1961
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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.