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Feminist Narrative Ethics : Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form / by Nash, Katherine Saunders, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…The ethics of distance -- The ethics of fair play -- The ethics of persuasion -- The ethics of attention -- Conclusion.…”
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Seductive Reasoning : Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory / by Rooney, Ellen, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Reading pluralism symptomatically -- Persuasion and the production of knowledge -- The limits of pluralism are not plural -- "Not to worry" : the therapeutic rhetoric of Stanley Fish -- Not taking sides : reading the rhetoric of persuasion -- This politics which is not one.…”
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Social Minds in the Novel / by Palmer, Alan, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Cognitive approaches -- Introduction to social minds -- Middlemarch -- Little Dorrit -- Persuasion and other novels -- Conclusion (including Enduring love).…”
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Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered / by Briggs, John Channing, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The mind of the persuader -- Rhetorical contexts -- The Lyceum address : "On the perpetuation of our political institutions" -- The temperance address : moral reform and emancipation -- The speech on the War with Mexico and the eulogy for Zachary Taylor : " injustice and heroic virtue " -- The eulogy for Henry Clay : persuasion and/or principle -- The Kansas-Nebraska speech : popular sovereignty and self-government -- The "house divided" speech : the logic of hopeful resolve -- Lecture on discoveries and inventions : self-government and inventions : self-government and arts of literacy -- The Milwaukee address : thorough farming and self-government -- The Cooper Union address : the empirical wager -- Presidential eloquence and political religion : governing "in the providence of God" -- The farewell address : "Let us confidently hope" -- The first inaugural, the Gettysburg address, and the second inaugural : providence and persuasion -- Postscript. …”
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Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism / by Morris, Pam, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Worldly realism -- Part I: Systems and things -- Sense and sensibility: wishing is believing -- Mrs.Dalloway: the spirit of religion was abroad -- Part II: Nation and universe -- Emma: a prospect of England -- The waves: blasphemy of laughter and criticism -- Part III: Guns and plumbing -- Persuasion: fellow creatures -- The years: moment of transition -- Conclusion.…”
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Imagining Minds : The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy / by Young, Kay, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the integrated mind -- Jane Austen and self-consciousness -- "A mind lively and at ease" : imagination and Emma -- "You pierce my soul" : feeling embodied and persuasion -- George Eliot and other-consciousness -- "A voice like music" : the problem of other minds and Middlemarch -- "Beloved ideas made flesh" : the embodied mind and Daniel Deronda -- Thomas Hardy and nonintrospective consciousness -- "Now I am melancholy mad" : mood and Jude the obscure -- "That blue narcotic haze" : dreams, dissociation, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Coda : the neurology of narrative.…”
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Experiencing Fiction : Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative / by Phelan, James, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical experience of narrative -- Jane Austen's experiment in narrative comedy : the beginning and early middle of Persuasion -- Sethe's choice and Toni Morrison's strategies : the beginning and middle of Beloved -- Chicago criticism, new criticism, cultural thematics, and rhetorical poetics -- Progressing toward surprise : Edith Wharton's "Roman fever" -- Delayed disclosure and the problem of other minds : Ian McEwan's Atonement -- Rhetorical aesthetics within rhetorical poetics -- Interlacings of narrative and lyric : Ernest Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" and Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Narrative in the service of portraiture : Alice Munro's "Prue" and Ann Beattie's "Janus" -- Dramatic dialogue as lyric narrative : Robert Frost's "Home burial" -- Experiencing fiction and its corpus : extensions to nonfiction narrative and synthetic fiction.…”
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Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory /

Table of Contents: “…Barr -- Becoming animal in Black women's science fiction / Madhu Dubey -- God is change: persuasion and pragmatic utopianism in Octavia E. Butler's earthseed novels / Ellen Peel -- Tananarive Due and Nalo Hopkinson revisit the reproduction of mothering: legacies of the past and strategies for the future / Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan -- Close encounters between traditional and nontraditional science fiction: Octavia E. …”
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Unearthing Gender : Folksongs of North India / by Jassal, Smita Tewari

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