Somebody Telling Somebody Else A Rhetorical Poetics Of Narrative
why he was coming up. He didn’t talk then, but he had a fall coming and he knew it. I thought maybe he was thinking about dumpin ...
But to say “poor Eddie” is to overlook the knowledge that Eddie’s self- interest has put him on the verge of doing what Dillon a ...
led me to the story (I’ll have more to say about those comments below). O’Hara does not have space for any Higgins-like arias, a ...
his lifelong acquaintance, Jack Hill. In the second conversation, we continue to follow Howard and substitute Amy for Lois as ou ...
that you stayed away” (5–6)—O’Hara uses the initial strength of their respec- tive positions in combination with his title to in ...
“Your father is getting closer to the truth, Amy.” “I guess he is.” “I had a very difficult time persuading him to go to the fun ...
her marriage vows lightly. Lois is more concerned about keeping up appear- ances than about Amy’s actual behavior. And both wome ...
Amy has no such concerns and, indeed, is able to imagine that Joe’s family is likely not to regard his marrying a divorced woman ...
relation to those suspicions shortly, but first I want to note how O’Hara uses Amy’s insinuation as part of his larger disclosur ...
that pattern seemed to be completed with the revelation about Amy and Jack Hill, the audience now discovers, at the very end of ...
dence—given Howard a reference to Hill whose veil was more transparent or introduced a revealing discussion between Howard and A ...
CHAPTER 10 The Implied Author, Deficient Narration, and Nonfiction Narrative JOAN DIDION’S THE YEAR OF MAgICAL THINKINg AND JEAN ...
This chapter also continues the discussion of chapter 3 about the differ- ences for readerly response that follow from a narrati ...
raphy (2001) offers a helpful analysis of four autobiographical “I’s” (the histor- ical-I of the real author, the narrating-I, t ...
options for locating the agency of the shifts in the narrating-I’s voices: one or more of the successive “Frankies” or the more ...
intentionality in our understanding of autobiographical telling, and such a role is incompatible with the dominant orthodoxy of ...
entirely with those communities—authors are essentially irrelevant. Fish’s contention is persuasive only if the crucial assumpti ...
about a literary text—what can the language of this text possibly mean?— but its viability does not entail the conclusion that o ...
what the person who wrote the names on the board probably intended, then the assignment hypothesis becomes far more likely.) In ...
of the available resources of language. At the same time, as the discussion of the first sentence of Pride and Prejudice shows, ...
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