Somebody Telling Somebody Else A Rhetorical Poetics Of Narrative
process of configuration and reconfiguration, that is, a process of (a) forming a hypothesis about the trajectory of the narrati ...
which Georg is alone, then moves to one where he interacts with his father, and then back to one where he is alone. In addition ...
judgment. Just as important, when Herr Bendemann delivers his judgment at the end of stage two, the authorial audience’s struggl ...
these reflections is his inability to speak openly and honestly to his childhood friend. But Georg himself, in order to please F ...
progression, Kafka opens up a substantial distance between Georg’s interpre- tive and ethical judgments and those of his authori ...
Kafka claimed that he was thinking of Freud in writing the story, and, indeed, much of the father-son dynamic can be explained a ...
death—is an issue about whether one event or another occurs in the fabula, and it is a gap that functions to underline the compu ...
But one consequence of the textual stubbornness is to move the story from a straight mimetic account to one in which the themati ...
vidual narratives. “Das Urteil” reinforces this lesson because it does not fit any predetermined rhetorical mode, and, indeed, t ...
increasing number of interpretive and ethical judgments—and with a require- ment that the audience jump over a space in which on ...
Kafka’s “Das Urteil” teaches rhetorical theory something new, because its surprise ending works in a remarkably different way, b ...
AESTHETICS AND ETHICS As I turn toward the conclusion of this chapter, the traffic of my discussion is ready to move back in the ...
CHAPTER 5 Estranging Unreliability, Bonding Unreliability, and the Ethics of Lolita W ITH THIS CHAPTER, I move away from discuss ...
control of the rhetorical resources? . . . One of the major delights of this delightful, profound book is that of watching Humbe ...
able narrator and complain about the morality of Lolita? Nabokov should not be impugned for his readers’ failures, should he? An ...
ment of these two kinds of unreliability, especially in part 1 of Lolita, pro- vides the grounds for our understanding of the re ...
In most work on unreliable narration since Booth’s coining of the term in 1961, theorists and critics have focused on this secon ...
than bantering. Nevertheless, the statement shows that Stevens has learned something in the course of the narrative, has moved c ...
facts/events and understanding/perception, and it has the potential to reduce the perceptual, ethical, and affective distance be ...
is himself a patient in this psychiatric hospital: he suffers from paranoia and extremely low self-esteem. These conditions, whi ...
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