judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical theory of narrative /
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James Phelan
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Columbus :
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Ohio State University Press,
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c2007
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xvi, 249 p. ;
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24 cm
SERIES
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Theory and interpretation of narrative
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-242) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical experience of narrative -- Jane Austen's experiment in narrative comedy : the beginning and early middle of Persuasion -- Sethe's choice and Toni Morrison's strategies : the beginning and middle of Beloved -- Chicago criticism, new criticism, cultural thematics, and rhetorical poetics -- Progressing toward surprise : Edith Wharton's "Roman fever" -- Delayed disclosure and the problem of other minds : Ian McEwan's Atonement -- Rhetorical aesthetics within rhetorical poetics -- Interlacings of narrative and lyric : Ernest Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" and Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Narrative in the service of portraiture : Alice Munro's "Prue" and Ann Beattie's "Janus" -- Dramatic dialogue as lyric narrative : Robert Frost's "Home burial" -- Experiencing fiction and its corpus : extensions to nonfiction narrative and synthetic fiction
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc
American literature-- Explication
English fiction-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc