Somebody Telling Somebody Else A Rhetorical Poetics Of Narrative
And although rhetorical readers can readily invert the order of events and reassign cause and effect (the slap causes rather tha ...
Here too Soul misreports and misreads: his inability to recognize the actual order of events in the script for taxi rides leads ...
The pocket of reliable regarding can be found in Soul’s underlying ethical and aesthetic judgment that there’s something wrong w ...
of chapter 3, a point in the story during which Unverdorben, then known as John Young, is working as a doctor in New York: Is it ...
arrow. Consider this passage from the end of chapter 2. Unverdorben is riding on a train away from one city and toward another, ...
Once again, then, the overall effect of the passage is to lead Amis’s audi- ence to a series of complex ethical judgments that i ...
than it has before.^5 If Amis were to narrate the chapter using primarily unre- liable narration with bonding effects, he would ...
Kapos would go at it, crudely but effectively, with knives or chisel or any tool that came to hand.” Divorced from Soul’s unders ...
sociated state, cannot face. Indeed, Soul’s description of the sky underlines not only that dissociation but also Amis’s close j ...
pation in the genocide. In this way, Amis also paves the way for his actual readers to move from immersion in his fictional worl ...
historical memory, and its lingering effects on all of us who are still trying to come to terms with it. Looking back on the who ...
CHAPTER 7 “I affirm nothing” LORD JIM AND THE USES OF TEXTUAL RECALCITRANCE 135 JIM’S CHARACTER AND EXPERIENCE AS AN INSTANCE OF ...
then, in this chapter I will take up the interrelations of stubbornness, reliable and unreliable narration, and the ethical dime ...
language inevitably immerses its readers into the deconstructive element. On the other hand, if we were to accept fully Rader’s ...
involving Marlow as narrator who seeks to come to terms with Jim’s story. The textual dynamics of Jim’s story, though marked by ...
in what follows, I will focus much more on Marlow than on Jim, considering both Marlow’s narration as a rhetorical action and hi ...
present tense. “What do you say?” and “I don’t know.” Despite Marlow’s deep interest in Jim and despite Marlow’s many efforts to ...
Since Marlow’s narratees are barely characterized, they function as figures for Conrad’s readers. Consequently, the report that ...
Similarly, when Marlow remarks that because Jim regards himself as “sat- isfied . . . nearly,” “it did not matter who suspected ...
himself from the language of facts, that are so often more enigmatic than the craftiest arrangement of words. (246–47) These com ...
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