SOMEBODY TELLING SOMEBODY ELSE: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative
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Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
PREFACE
PART 1: On the Explanatory Power of Rhetorical Poetics
IN SEARCH OF A NEW PARADIGM
WHY AREN’T CHARACTERS IN THE NARRATIVE COMMUNICATION MODEL?
MULTIPLE CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION AND SYNERGIES AMONG THEM
AUTHORS, RESOURCES, AUDIENCES: A RHETORICAL VIEW OF NARRATIVE COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER 2: Somebody Telling Somebody Else: AUDIENCES AND PROBABLE IMPOSSIBILITIES
ARISTOTLE ON PROBABILITY
SHELDON SACKS ON READERLY INFERENCES ABOUT GENRE
BEYOND ARISTOTLE AND SACKS: IMPLAUSIBILITIES AND READERLY DYNAMICS
RHETORICAL THEORY AND UNNATURAL NARRATOLOGY
CROSSOVER PHENOMENA: DAVID SMALL’S STITCHES
A SPECTRUM OF (IM)PROBABILITY
PART 2: Resources GENERIC FRAMES, TECHNIQUES, OCCASIONS—AND SYNERGIES
INTRODUCTION: Constructing a Rhetorical Poetics
CHAPTER 3: Probability in Fiction and Nonfiction: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
RHETORICAL THEORY’S ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT FICTION AND NONFICTION
PLOTTING AND PROBABILITY IN PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
FREEDOM AND CONSTRAINT IN THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
CHAPTER 4: Engaging the Stubborn: NARRATIVE SPEED AND READERLY JUDGMENTS IN FRANZ KAFKA’S “DAS URTEIL”
PROGRESSION, SPEED, AND JUDGMENT IN “DAS URTEIL”
FROM “DAS URTEIL” TO ISSUES IN RHETORICAL POETICS
AESTHETICS AND ETHICS
WAYNE C. BOOTH, UNRELIABLE NARRATION, AND THE ETHICS OF LOLITA
ESTRANGING AND BONDING UNRELIABILITY WITHIN A RHETORICAL APPROACH TO NARRATION
SIX SUBTYPES OF BONDING UNRELIABILITY: LOCAL AND GLOBAL EFFECTS
ESTRANGING AND BONDING UNRELIABILITY AND THE ETHICS OF LOLITA
CHAPTER 6: The How and Why of Backward Narration in Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow
THE WHAT AND (SOME OF) THE WHY OF AMIS’S TECHNIQUE
THE HOW AND (MORE OF) THE WHY OF THE TECHNIQUE
POCKETS OF RELIABLE NARRATION
THE NARRATION OF UNVERDORBEN’S EXPERIENCE AT AUSCHWITZ
TWO FINAL POCKETS OF RELIABILITY
JIM’S CHARACTER AND EXPERIENCE AS AN INSTANCE OF THE STUBBORN
MARLOW’S NARRATION AS RHETORICAL ACTION
MARLOW’S NARRATION AND FAREWELL IN THE WRITTEN NARRATIVE
CHAPTER 8: Toni Morrison’s Determinate Ambiguity in “Recitatif”
METAREPRESENTATION, CHARACTER NARRATION, AND THE ETHICS OF MORRISON’S TELLING
NARRATIVE PROGRESSION, SOCIAL MINDS, AND A PROBABLE IMPLAUSIBILITY IN “RECITATIF”
CHAPTER 9: Conversational and Authorial Disclosure in Dialogue Narrative: GEORGE HIGGINS’S THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE AND JOHN O’HARA’S “APPEARANCES”
CONVERSATIONAL AND AUTHORIAL DISCLOSURES IN THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE
HIGGINS’S DIALOGUE
DIALOGUE AND THE DIALOGUE NOVEL; OR CONVERSATION AS NARRATION
TEXTUAL DYNAMICS IN EDDIE COYLE
HIGGINS AND EDDIE; OR, AUTHORIAL AND CONVERSATIONAL DISCLOSURE IN CHAPTER 2
HIGGINS AND DILLON
AUTHORIAL DISCLOSURES ACROSS CONVERSATIONS IN “APPEARANCES”
CHAPTER 10: The Implied Author, Deficient Narration, and Nonfiction Narrative: JOAN DIDION’S THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING AND JEAN-DOMINIQUE BAUBY’S THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
ELBOW ROOM FOR INTENTIONALITY
INTENTIONALITY FROM A RHETORICAL PERSPECTIVE
FLESH-AND-BLOOD AUTHORS, IMPLIED AUTHORS, AND OCKHAM’S RAZOR
THE IMPLIED AUTHOR, NONFICTION NARRATIVE, AND DEFICIENT NARRATION
“THE THIRD AND FINAL CONTINENT”
FROM UNRELIABLE TO RELIABLE CHARACTER NARRATION
LAHIRI’S SYNERGIES
THE PROBABLE IMPLAUSIBILITY; OR THE CROSSOVER LOGIC OF MALA’S LAUGHTER
MASK NARRATION
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 12: Reliable, Unreliable, and Deficient Narration: TOWARD A RHETORICAL POETICS
RELIABLE NARRATION
UNRELIABLE NARRATION
DEFICIENT NARRATION
CONCLUSION; OR SO WHAT?
CHAPTER 13: Occasions of Narration and the Functions of Narrative Segments in Enduring Love
THE THREE TELLINGS IN ENDURING LOVE
JOE ROSE’S TELLING
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSION: Reflections on the How and Why of Rhetorical Poetics
WORKS CITED
INDEX