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" The rhetoric of fiction / "
Wayne C. Booth.
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BL
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1014351
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b768721
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| Main Entry
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Booth, Wayne C.
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| Title & Author
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The rhetoric of fiction /\ Wayne C. Booth.
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| Edition Statement
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2nd ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 1983.
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xix, 552 pages ;; 21 cm
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0226065561
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: 0226065588
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: 9780226065564
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: 9780226065588
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-520) and index.
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| Contents
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Foreword to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Artistic Purity and the Rhetoric of Fiction -- I. Telling and Showing -- Authoritative "Telling" in Early Narration -- Two Stories from the Decameron -- The Author's Many Voices -- II. General Rules, I: "True Novels Must Be Realistic" -- From Justified Revolt to Crippling Dogma -- From Differentiated Kinds to Universal Qualities -- General Criteria in Earlier Periods -- Three Sources of General Criteria: The Work, the Author, the Reader -- Intensity of Realistic Fiction -- The Novel as Unmediated Reality -- On Discriminating among Realisms -- The Ordering of Intensities -- III. General Rules, II: "All Authors Should be Objective" -- Neutrality and the Author's "Second Self" -- Impartiality and "Unfair" Emphasis -- Impassibilite; -- Subjectivism Encouraged by Impersonal Techniques -- IV. General Rules III: "True Art Ignores the Audience" -- "True Artists Write Only for Themselves -- Theories of Pure Art -- The "Impurity" of Great Literature -- Is a Pure Fiction Theoretically Desirable? -- V. General Rules, IV: Emotions, Beliefs, and the Reader's Objectivity -- "Tears and Laughter Are, Aesthetically, Frauds" -- Types of Literary Interest (and Distance) -- Combinations and Conflicts of Interests -- The Role of Belief -- Belief Illustrated: The Old Wives' Tale -- VI. Types of Narration -- Person -- Dramatized and Undramatized Narrators -- Observers and Narrator-Agents -- Scene and Summary -- Commentary -- Self-Conscious Narrators -- Variations of Distance -- Variations in Support or Correction -- Privilege -- Inside Views -- Part II: The Author's Voice in Fiction -- VII. The Uses of Reliable Commentary -- Providing the Facts, Picture, or Summary -- Molding Beliefs -- Relating Particulars to the Established Norms -- Heightening the Significance of Events -- Generalizing the Significance of Events -- Generalizing the Significance of the Whole Work -- Manipulating Mood -- Commenting Directly on the Work Itself -- VIII. Telling as Showing: Dramatized Narrators, Reliable and Unreliable -- Reliable Narrators as Dramatized Spokesmen for the Implied Author -- "Fielding" in Tom Jones -- Imitators of Fielding -- Tristram Shandy and the Problem of Formal Coherence -- Three Formal Traditions: Comic Novel, Collection, and Satire -- The Unity of Tristram Shandy -- Shandean Commentary, Good and Bad -- IX. Control of Distance in Jane Austen's Emma -- Sympathy and Judgment in Emma -- Sympathy through Control of Inside Views -- Control of Judgment -- The Reliable Narrator and the Norms of Emma -- Explicit Judgments on Emma Woodhouse -- The Implied Author as Friend and Guide -- Part III: Impersonal Narration -- X. The Uses of Authorial Silence -- "Exit Author" Once Again -- Control of Sympathy -- Control of Clarity and Confusion -- "Secret Communion" between Author and Reader -- XI. The Price of Impersonal Narration, I: Confusion of Distance -- The Turn of the Screw as Puzzle -- Troubles with Irony in Earlier Literature -- The Problem of Distance in A Portrait of the Artist -- XII. The Price of Impersonal Narration, II: Henry James and the Unreliable Narrator -- The Development from Flawed Reflector into Subject -- The Two Liars in "The Liar" -- "The Purloining of the Aspern Papers" or "The Evocation of Venice"? -- "Deep Readers of the World, Beware!" -- XIII. The Morality of Impersonal Narration -- Morality and Technique -- The Seductive Point of View: Ce;line; as Example -- The Author's Moral Judgment Obscured -- The Morality of Elitism -- Afterword to the Second Edition: The Rhetoric in Fiction and Fiction as Rhetoric: Twenty-One Years Later --Bibliography --Supplementary Bibliography, 1961-82, by James Phelan --Index to the First Edition --Index to the Bibliographies.
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| Abstract
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A standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts. Its concepts and terms have become standard critical lexicon.
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Fiction-- Technique.
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Roman-- Technique.
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Fiction-- Technique.
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Roman-- Esthétique.
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Roman-- Technique.
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Verteltheorie.
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| Dewey Classification
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808.3
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| LC Classification
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PN3355.B597 1983
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808.323
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