Somebody Telling Somebody Else A Rhetorical Poetics Of Narrative
continue his habits in the oral narrative, that is, narrating his interactions with the characters who gave him the fragmentary ...
His cover letter to the privileged man comments that the final events of Jim’s life occurred “in the year of grace before last” ...
able, authoritative, and significant. Indeed, I can find no instances of Marlow being an unreliable interpreter or evaluator in ...
amongst the passions of this earth, ready to surrender himself faithfully to the claim of his own world of shades. Who knows? He ...
rator. Such a return would diminish both effects because Marlow’s uncertainty would surely allow the privileged man to maintain ...
bility: he unequivocally makes the case that Jim’s life is worthy of Marlow’s and of rhetorical readers’ quest for its meaning w ...
CHAPTER 8 Toni Morrison’s Determinate Ambiguity in “Recitatif ” I N THIS CHAPTER, I continue to explore the ways in which author ...
rather than productive collaboration. On those occasions when they have engaged with each other’s work, they have emphasized dif ...
developing the consequences of the principle. Although I am not aware of any cognitive theorist explicitly endorsing this larger ...
have so far. Indeed, in light of what the approaches have in common, we ought to pause and consider why there has not yet been m ...
of the story’s progression, the withholding functions as a global tension of unequal knowledge that is never resolved. Both Morr ...
that (a) Twyla and Roberta are either black or white, not black/white (duck or rabbit, not duck/rabbit); (b) they know each othe ...
from narrator to reader. Zunshine’s summary of her analysis illustrates this point: [Some narratives with unreliable narrators] ...
But I didn’t know. I thought it was just the opposite. Busloads of blacks and whites came into Howard Johnson’s together. They r ...
is white, until someone points out, as Abel’s black friend Lula Fragd did, that Hendrix was more popular with whites than blacks ...
Morrison’s use of social minds in “Recitatif ” nicely exemplifies this last point. Much of her story traces the formation, the f ...
ing memories about Maggie during their time at the orphanage limit their bond. In the fourth, set later in the 1970s, primarily ...
Twyla and Roberta bond more fully in response to the hostile behavior of the adolescent girls, who, as I’ll discuss below, funct ...
danced with each other. They’d light out after us and pull our hair or twist our arms. We were scared of them, Roberta and me, b ...
4, Roberta insists that Maggie was black and that they joined with the adoles- cents in kicking Maggie when she was down. Twyla ...
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