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probable implausibility, 158–67, 226–28; in
Iliad, 36; in “Recitatif,” 158; in Stitches,
53, 56; in “Third and Final Continent,”
226–28. See also Aristotle; crossover
effects; improbable possibilities
probable impossibilities, 32–35, 58 fig. 2.4
progression, of narrative, 10–11, 84–91, 120–
21, 138–39, 158–67 and passim
Rabinowitz, Peter J., 4, 5n1, 105n, 151n2, 152
Rader, Ralph, 37n5, 39n6, 69, 72, 99n2,
136–37
readers, rhetorical: concept of, 8, 11–12, 70,
259 and passim. See also audience(s)
reading, x–xi. See also audience(s)
Reading Autobiography (Smith & Watson),
196–99
recalcitrance, 41, 48, 49, 82, 82n1, 86, 94,
94n5, 135–49, 150–67. See also ambiguity;
stubborn, the
“Recitatif ” (Morrison), 9, 150, 153–67, 155n5,
159n7
reconfiguration, 11, 40, 84, 93, 94, 124, 170,
177–79, 180–85, 187, 189–92, 258
reliable narration, 33, 65, 78, 125–29, 218–20,
231–34, 234 fig. 12.1. See also deficient
narration; unreliable narration
Remains of the Day, The (Ishiguro), 100–101
resources of narrative, x–xi, 26 table 1.1, 29,
59, 63, 217, 239, 257 and passim
restricted narration, 219, 221–25, 232, 232n2,
234 fig. 12.1, 235 fig. 12.3
revelation, 44, 48, 51, 55–58, 87, 93, 169, 181,
189, 193
rhetorical action: narration as, 137–42; narra-
tive as, x, 5–12 and passim
rhetorical poetics, x–xii, 37; in Aristotle,
35–36; interpretation and, 257–58; prin-
ciples of, 3–12; and unnatural narratol-
ogy, 51–52; value of, 257–59 and passim
rhetorical readers, 8, 11–12, 70, 123–24. See
also audience(s)
rhetorical theory: feedback loop in, 6; fic-
tion in, 69–73; integration of history in,
9–10; intentionality and, 201–4; narra-
tive communication in, 25–29, 26 table
1.1; nonfiction in, 69–73; as a posteriori,
91–92; principles of, x, 4–12; unnatural
narratology and, 51–52 and passim
Rhetoric of Fiction, The (Booth), 97, 218
Richardson, Brian, 51–52, 51n13, 151n2, 196
Richardson, Samuel, 69, 155
Roderick Hudson (James), 257
“Roman Fever” (Wharton), 93
Room (Donoghue), 22–24
Rule of Duration, 47, 49, 144
Rule of Extraordinary Revelation, 48, 55
Rule of Partial Continuity, 47, 49–50
Rule of Self-Assurance, 48, 50, 55, 144, 227
Rule of Temporal Decoding, 48–49, 165
Rules about Readerly Engagement with
Dominant System of Probability, 47–49.
See also rules above
Ryan, Marie-Laure, 34n1, 69Sacks, Sheldon, 33, 36–43
Schlink, Bernhard, 118n1
Segmentivity, in Enduring Love (McEwan),
239–40, 248–46; in The Friends of Eddie
Coyle (Higgins), 24–25
self-assurance, 48, 50, 55, 144, 227
self-deprecation, 107–8, 209
Shklovsky, Viktor, 106
Sklar, Howard, 151n3
Small, David, 30 fig. 2.1, 30–31, 31 fig. 2.2, 32,
52–57, 56 fig. 2.3
Smith, Sidonie, 196–97
Snyder, Sharon, 151n3, 164
social minds, 158–67
Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner), 9–10,
21–22, 100
speed, narrative, 84–93
Stitches (Small), 30 fig. 2.1, 30–31, 31 fig. 2.2,
32, 52–57, 56 fig. 2.3
Story and Discourse (Chatman), 13
story/discourse distinction, 3, 19–21
structuralism, x, xii, 3, 21, 152, 153n4. See also
post-structuralism
Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The
(Kuhn), 14
stubborn, the, 82–83, 89–91, 94, 94n5, 135–37,
139, 147. See also ambiguity
Suleiman, Susan, 118
Sussman, Henry, 84
synthetic component of narrative, 11–12
synthetic response, 11–12