The Rhetoric of Fictionality : Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction /

"Narrative theory has always been centrally concerned with fiction, yet it has tended to treat fictions as if they were merely the framed or disowned equivalents of nonfictional narratives. A rhetorical perspective upon fictionality, however, sees it as a direct way of meaning and a distinct ki...

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Main Author: Walsh, Richard, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2007]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • The pragmatics of narrative fictionality
  • Fictionality and mimesis
  • Fabula and fictionality in narrative theory
  • The narrator and the frame of fiction
  • The rhetoric of representation and narrative voice
  • The narrative imagination across media
  • Narrative creativity : the novelist as medium
  • Reader involvement : why we wept for Little Nell.