INDEX • 271
Frost, Robert, 94
Genette, Gérard, 44
genre: as narrative resource, 26 table 1.1; in
Pride and Prejudice, 75–76; readerly
inferences about, 36–43; rhetorical read-
ers and, 11; stubbornness and, 94n5;
switching, 68
Gjerlevsen, Simona Zetterberg, 69
Good Soldier, The (Ford), 100
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 49–51, 138,
144, 220, 228, 233
“Haircut” (Lardner), 100
Harris, Greg, 118n1
Havoc in the Hub (Wolfe), 170n1
Hemingway, Ernest, 108–9, 205
Herman, David, 3, 13, 27, 151n2, 153, 153n4,
204
Higgins, George V., 9, 14–19, 24–25, 28–29,
168–71, 173–80, 177n3, 180–86, 193–94
Hirsch, E. D., Jr., 199
history, integration of, in rhetorical theory,
9–10
Hogan, Patrick, 13
“Home Burial” (Frost), 94
Homer, 34–36
“How to Recognize a Poem When You See
One” (Fish), 200
Hume, Katherine, 92
“I,” 197–98
Iliad (Homer), 34–36
implausibility, 32–33, 43–51, 226–28
implied author, 13, 26 table 1.1, 26–29, 197–
98, 204–14, 231
improbable possibilities, 32, 34–35
Intentional Fallacy, 196, 199, 202
intentionality, 196–205, 211
interpretation, xi; in Fish, 199–200; misinter-
pretation, 234, 235 fig. 12.2, 235 fig. 12.3;
as a posteriori, 5–6; rhetorical poetics
and, 257–58; underinterpretation, 234,
235 fig. 12.2, 235 fig. 12.3; unreliable, 157
Ishiguro, Kazuo, 100–101
It’s Not about the Bike (Armstrong), ix
Iversen, Stefan, 51
Jackson, Elizabeth, 216
James, Henry, 100, 257
Jenkins, Sally, ix
Jones, Margaret B., 67
“Judgment, The” (Kafka). See “Das Urteil”
(Kafka)
judgments, narrative, 83–91Kafka, Franz, 10, 82–94
Kesey, Ken, 102–5
Koshy, Susan, 216–17
Kuhn, Thomas, 13Lahiri, Jhumpa, 9, 30, 32, 215–18, 221–26,
224n3, 226–29, 226n5, 233
Lardner, Ring, 100
Lehane, Denis, 170
Leonard, Elmore, 170
Les Bienveillantes (Littell), 118
“Literary Criticism and the Poet’s Auton-
omy” (Ford), 34–35
literary nonfiction, 72
Littell, Jonathan, 118
Lolita (Nabokov), 96–99, 110–16, 171
Long Goodbye, The (Chandler), 233
Lord Jim (Conrad), 94, 135–49
Lothe, Jakob, 136
Love and Consequences (Jones), 67
lyric, 83, 99n2Malcolm, David, 250n3
mask narration, 99, 99n2, 220, 228–29, 233,
234 fig. 12.1, 235 fig. 12.3
McCarthy, Dermot, 118n1
McCarthy, Matt, 67
McCourt, Frank, 10, 197–98, 219–20, 232
McEwan, Ian, 94, 100, 239–56, 240n1, 250n4,
258
McGlothlin, Erin, 118n1
Mengele, Josef, 122, 122n3
metafiction, 11, 49, 69. See also fiction
metalepsis, 45n9, 106
metarepresentation, 151, 153–58, 154 fig. 8.1
Miller, J. Hillis, 136–37
Million Little Pieces, A (Frey), 57, 67, 213, 236
mimesis, 3, 18–19, 28, 32, 44–45, 121–22,
250n4