Somebody Telling Somebody Else A Rhetorical Poetics Of Narrative
Before turning to Twain’s novel, I want to note differences and similari- ties between probability as it applies to events and p ...
candles from the Widow Douglas’s kitchen, leaving a five-cent piece for them on the kitchen table, and then plays a practical jo ...
bility? Let me first clarify its nature, which is rooted in issues of access and temporality. If, as Huck’s narration implies, h ...
audiences are willing to overlook the implausibility because doing so enables that entertainment. But Twain also uses the passag ...
(2) The voice in the passage remains recognizably Huck’s and thus creates continuity with the dominant code. Here we have the Ru ...
audiences. Once audiences infer that narratives are committed to a certain set of interests—characters in action in a world like ...
Huck Finn: Nick’s report goes for more than four pages and every aspect of the break is immediately apparent—if one is looking f ...
sharper sense of his psychological state (notice that he sees the clouds as hav- ing “fantastic” shapes), even as it stops short ...
torical theory on “textual dynamics” but is silent about its work on “readerly dynamics” (“Time, Plot, Progression” 78). For the ...
resides in Dr. Davidson’s telling David that his mother doesn’t love him just a few minutes into their first appointment. Indeed ...
putting on an Alice-like head scarf, makes him an object of ridicule for other kids in the neighborhood. David’s response is to ...
As Small begins the scene of David’s meeting with Dr. Davidson/the White Rabbit, he follows the real-world script for a patient’ ...
ing the Rabbit ask his question to David, Small is simultaneously asking it to his audience, who of course are primed to answer ...
Within the internal logic of the progression, then, the probable implau- sibility is amply justified. But this analysis raises q ...
redundant telling, an implied author will have a character narrator improba- bly tell a narratee something that the narratee alr ...
FIGURE 2.4. From probability to plausible violations of probability to probable implausibilities and impossibilities. Having giv ...
...
PA R T 2 Resources GENERIC FRAMES, TECHNIQUES, OCCASIONS— AND SYNERGIES ...
...
INTRODUCTION Constructing a Rhetorical Poetics 63 I N KEEPING with this book’s focus on “somebody telling somebody else,” I choo ...
«
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
»
Free download pdf