Somebody Telling Somebody Else A Rhetorical Poetics Of Narrative
Morrison guides her rhetorical readers to recognize that Twyla’s epiphany is itself limited because it uses Maggie as what Mitch ...
have reported that Maggie fell.^8 Morrison’s use of the present tense at the time of reporting only magnifies the implausibility ...
“Did I tell you? My mother, she never did stop dancing.” “Yes. You told me. And mine, she never got well.” Roberta lifted her ha ...
theory as a very helpful Robin to my rhetorical Batman. I have done so not because I think cognitive theory must always be the j ...
CHAPTER 9 Conversational and Authorial Disclosure in Dialogue Narrative GEORGE HIGGINS’S THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE AND JOHN O’H ...
authorial disclosures across conversations are another site where the role of the unfolding responses of the audience influence ...
rhetorical readers a great deal of indirect guidance, and here I shall expand on my analysis in chapter 1 by focusing on two of ...
Ah, the dialogue. It takes up a good eighty percent of the novel, and you wouldn’t mind if it took up the full hundred. No one, ...
art of indirection than character narration, since it entails additional speak- ers with different purposes (implied author and ...
This discussion of dialogue as in part an art of indirection has already begun to illuminate the distinction between conversatio ...
Foley tells Dillon, “I don’t really know very much about [Coyle’s New Hamp- shire] case” (148), Higgins relies on his audience’s ...
from Eddie for a series of well-executed bank robberies. Meanwhile, Dillon has his own meetings with Foley at which he reveals t ...
able about why Jackie can be so confident (“You got somebody in the plant” [7])—and as curious about Jackie’s other customers. W ...
“I need a good leaving alone,” the stocky man said. “I’d as soon not have anybody start thinking about me too much on this detai ...
the instability in Eddie’s relation to Jackie Brown: it’s not just a question of whether Eddie can trust Jackie but also a quest ...
For his part, Eddie plays good defense, and indeed, his skill suggests that he has at least some awareness of Foley’s purposes. ...
wanting to know just how much information he has to give Foley in order for Foley to make the call to New Hampshire. For his par ...
to be even more beleaguered than Eddie, as he explains to Foley the fear that keeps him from testifying before the grand jury. T ...
[WEBBER]: “I wonder what the fuck it was got Dillon so stirred up then?” [SCALISI]: “He was worried about Coyle. I believe him. ...
At the same time, Higgins manages the authorial disclosure across con- versations for an additional communication here, one he t ...
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