Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 194 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Reproduktion [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
9780814272169
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0814272169
Series Statement:
Theory and interpretation of narrative
Content:
The pragmatics of narrative fictionality -- Fictionality and mimesis -- Fabula and fictionality in narrative theory -- The narrator and the frame of fiction -- The rhetoric of representation and narrative voice -- The narrative imagination across media -- Narrative creativity : the novelist as medium -- Reader involvement : why we wept for Little Nell.
Content:
"Narrative theory has always been centrally concerned with fiction, yet it has tended to treat fictions as if they were merely the framed or disowned equivalents of nonfictional narratives. A rhetorical perspective upon fictionality, however, sees it as a direct way of meaning and a distinct kind of communicative gesture. The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction by Richard Walsh argues the merit of such a perspective and demonstrates its radical implications for narrative theory." "The rhetorical model of fictionality advanced in this book offers up new areas of inquiry into the purchase of fictiveness itself upon questions of narrative interpretation. It urges a fundamental reconception of the apparatus of narrative theory by theorizing the conditions of significance that make fictions conceivable and worthwhile."--Jacket
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814210697
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0814210694
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814291467
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0814291465
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Walsh, Richard, 1964- Rhetoric of fictionality Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2007
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
URL:
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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