Somebody Telling Somebody Else A Rhetorical Poetics Of Narrative
restricted narration to have the character narrator call attention to the fact that Mrs. Croft “mentioned nothing about the flag ...
Mala laughed then. Her voice was full of kindness, her eyes bright with amusement. I had never heard her laugh before. (194–95) ...
Now it was I who laughed. I did so quietly, and Mrs. Croft did not hear me. But Mala had heard, and, for the first time, we look ...
As stunned as I was, I knew what I had to say. With no hesitation at all, I cried out, “Splendid!” Mala laughed then. Her voice ...
Ritual. But the difference between audience and character means that Lahiri also guides her audience’s responses to Mala’s respo ...
comparison also implicitly brings Mrs. Croft into the passage because she is so closely associated with the astronauts. Mrs. Cro ...
CHAPTER 12 Reliable, Unreliable, and Deficient Narration TOWARD A RHETORICAL POETICS T HIS CHAPTER brings together in one short ...
torical phenomena, and deficient narration needs its own separate spectrum. Although both unreliable and deficient narration are ...
same relationship between the character narrator’s telling functions and her character functions. Indeed, attending to the varia ...
the authorial audience’s views of the reporting, interpreting, and evaluating coincide even as the narrating filter of the chara ...
To sum up, figure 12.1 is a diagram of the Spectrum of Reliable Narra- tion. The direction of the arrow indicates the increasing ...
Figure 12.2 shows the spectrum of Unreliable Narration, with the arrow indicating the direction of increasing unreliability (tho ...
ever, those bonding and estranging effects operate primarily in the implied author–actual audience relationship rather than prim ...
FIGURE 12.4. General kinds of deficient narration. FIGURE 12.5. A detailed taxonomy of deficient narration. rative. For example, ...
CONCLUSION; OR SO WHAT? I offer two answers to the so-what question: (1) This account, like any synoptic view of diverse but rel ...
CHAPTER 13 Occasions of Narration and the Functions of Narrative Segments in Enduring Love 239 I N THIS CHAPTER, I move away fro ...
shift in his tale from self-consciousness and reliability to unself-consciousness and unreliability; I shall also consider the r ...
Joe’s story, Jed’s letter, and the scholarly article, while the sjuzhet order is Joe’s story, scholarly article, Jed’s letter. ( ...
Joe’s self-conscious crafting is impressive here because he consistently interprets and evaluates his actions through his recons ...
The most dramatic consequence of this shift occurs in Joe’s narration in chapters 19 and 20 of Clarissa’s birthday lunch and its ...
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