Somebody telling somebody else

• Verfasst von: Phelan, James [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Somebody telling somebody else
• Titelzusatz: a rhetorical poetics of narrative
• Verf.angabe: James Phelan
• Verlagsort: Columbus
• Verlag: The Ohio State University Press
• E-Jahr: 2017
• Jahr: [2017]
• Umfang: xv, 274 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Theory and interpretation of narrative
• ISBN: 978-0-8142-5431-8
• ISBN: 978-0-8142-1345-2
• ISBN: 0-8142-1345-6
• Schlagwörter: (s)Erzähltheorie / (s)Erzähltechnik
• Schlagwörter: (s)Erzähltechnik
• Schlagwörter: (s)Erzähltheorie
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: HG 107
• Sach-SW: Narration (Rhetoric)
• Sach-SW: American fiction
• Sach-SW: English fiction
• K10plus-PPN: 1628908041

Abstract

Somebody telling somebody else: authors, resources, audiences -- Somebody telling somebody else: audiences and probable impossibilities -- Probability in fiction and nonfiction: pride and prejudice and the year of magical thinking -- Engaging the stubborn: narrative speed and readerly judgments in Franz Kafka's "Das Urteil" -- Estranging unreliability, bonding unreliability, and the ethics of Lolita -- The how and why of backward narration in Martin Amis's Time's arrow -- "I affirm nothing": Lord Jim and the uses of textual recalcitrance -- Toni Morrison's determinate ambiguity in "Recitatif" -- Conversational and authorial disclosure in dialogue narrative: George Higgins's The friends of Eddie Coyle and John O'Hara's "Appearances" -- The implied author, deficient narration, and nonfiction narrative: Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Jean-Dominique Bauby's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly -- Reliability, dialogue, and crossover effects in Jhumpa Lahiri's "The third and final continent" -- Reliable, unreliable, and deficient narration: toward a rhetorical poetics -- Occasions of narration and the functions of narrative segments in enduring love -- Conclusion: Reflections on the how and why of rhetorical poetics