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_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dDLC
_dEG-ScBUE
082 0 4 _a808.3
_bBOO
_222
100 1 _aBooth, Wayne C.
_eauthor.
_940527
245 1 4 _aThe rhetoric of fiction /
_cby Wayne C. Booth.
250 _aSecond edition.
264 1 _aChicago ;
_aLondon :
_bUniversity of Chicago Press,
_c1983.
300 _axix, 552 pages ;
_c21 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _a"Rhetoric is the author's term for the means by which the writer makes known his vision to the reader and persuades him of its validity; and he demonstrates convincingly that there is no essential difference between ostentatiously rhetorical novelists like Fielding and Dickens, and the admired masters of impersonality--Flaubert, James, Joyce ... this is a major critical work which should be required reading for everyone concerned in the academic study of prose fiction."
520 _aArtistic purity and the rhetoric of fiction -- General rules, I: "True novels must be realistic" -- General rules, II: "All authors should be objective" -- General rules, III: "True art ignores the audience" -- General rules, IV: Emotions, beliefs, and the reader's objectivity -- Types of narration -- The authors's voice in fiction -- The uses of reliable commentary -- Telling as showing: dramatized narrators, reliable and unreliable -- Control of distance in Jane Austen's Emma -- Impersonal narration -- The uses of authorial silence -- The price of impersonal narration, I: Confusion of distance -- The price of impersonal narration, II: Henry James and the unreliable narrator -- The morality of impersonal narration.
650 7 _aFiction
_xTechnique.
_2BUEsh
651 _2BUEsh
653 _bHHUUEENN
_cOctober2018
655 _vReading book
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi052/82013592.html
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0608/82013592-t.html
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