Somebody Telling Somebody Else A Rhetorical Poetics Of Narrative
constitutes his instinctive reactions. Old Nick shouts at, accuses, and threat- ens Ma, while she first calmly tries to explain ...
juxtaposition develops a stark contrast between the smooth efficiency with which the underworld dispenses justice and the unsati ...
(3) With regard to the first column, I have included the slash between Actual Author and Implied Author for two reasons: (a) I f ...
about the events as having actually occurred. In other words, the actual author constructs an implied author who unknowingly pre ...
real rather than hypothetical audiences. This conclusion, of course, is espe- cially significant when we come to discuss the eth ...
Who is the agent constructing these echoes? Given that Higgins makes minimal use of the narrator, typically restricting his func ...
CHAPTER 2 Somebody Telling Somebody Else AUDIENCES AND PROBABLE IMPOSSIBILITIES “I broke my hip!” Mrs. Croft announced, as if no ...
FIGURE 2.2. A turning point in Stitches, part II. David Small, Stitches (255). FIGURE 2.1. A turning point in Stitches, part I. ...
The poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. —ARISTOTLE, POETICS, CHAPTER 24 D ESPITE THEIR obvi ...
not have let him go it alone). Aristotle goes so far as to pronounce Achilles’ pursuit as “justified,” but, unfortunately, he do ...
that readerly dynamics become not just a consequence of textual dynamics but also a force that shapes them. Furthermore, this cr ...
to the example of Hector, Ford brings in Aristotle’s longer discussion of it in chapter 24, where Aristotle (a) commends the inc ...
role in its larger work or to an event whose impossibility would not be read- ily apparent. But the pursuit of Hector is a far m ...
tant book about how choices of genre strongly influence the ways in which authors of fiction embed their ethical beliefs in thei ...
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could not become pregnant.” More seriously, today we’d also have discussed the misogynistic assumptions upon which the whole sto ...
In 1973 I was fully persuaded by Sacks’s reasoning. Now I’m still persuaded by his conclusion but want to revise his reasoning t ...
that Mary has to be the stenographer) over the text-external system (which gives rise to the question of whether Mary is another ...
influence the construction of later parts, which in turn influence the audi- ence’s responses to those parts, and so on and so o ...
mental disposition to intuit such patterns after exposure to specific instances of them. When we encounter a new work, our knowl ...
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