Somebody Telling Somebody Else A Rhetorical Poetics Of Narrative
and Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking. In chapter 4, I continue the probability chain, even as I bring in a resource I ...
George V. Higgins’s The Friends of Eddie Coyle—with the fresh examination of another narrative, John O’Hara’s “Appearances.” In ...
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CHAPTER 3 Probability in Fiction and Nonfiction PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND THE YEAR OF MAgICAL THINKINg 67 I N THIS CHAPTER, I exte ...
checkers produce convincing evidence that the events could not have hap- pened the way the memoirist represents them. Chapter 3 ...
often been cited by those who want to blur the boundaries between the two genres. Dorrit Cohn, on the other hand, has identified ...
pose.” Both audiences are roles that rhetorical readers take on. Furthermore, rhetorical theory regards reading as a two-step pr ...
This ending is relatively effective, and it respects the major parameters of freedom and constraint governing the novel. The cha ...
does not lead any readers to feel betrayed by Brontë in the way that so many felt betrayed by James Frey. These considerations l ...
respond very differently to the same kinds of textual phenomena in the two genres—and that authors’ knowledge of this readerly r ...
autonomy and authorial purpose, both in Pride and Prejudice and the realist novel more generally. Early on, Austen goes to consi ...
Darcy, a time during which Darcy begins to feel the danger of his attraction to Elizabeth. By contrast, Austen’s arrangements fo ...
includes the inference that it represents a temporary, albeit serious, obstacle to their union. This inference is reinforced by ...
Chance is actually the convergence of Elizabeth’s and Darcy’s different pur- poses. The larger point of this analysis, then, is ...
and the sense that the implied Didion will invite her audience to make of that period. On the other hand, if we assume that this ...
force and significance to the task the narrator sets for herself and explicitly articulates here: coming to terms with the perio ...
It is worth noting that, having made these decisions about how to be responsible to the extratextual facts about Quintana, Didio ...
remaining eighty-five pages of the narrative, the adult Quintana appears only once, when Didion mentions that she attended Chris ...
CHAPTER 4 Engaging the Stubborn NARRATIVE SPEED AND READERLY JUDGMENTS IN FRANZ KAFKA’S “DAS URTEIL” I N THIS CHAPTER, I continu ...
that he should drown himself, and then draw on that interpretive work to further develop my rhetorical poetics. In particular, I ...
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