The rhetoric of fiction
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The rhetoric of fiction
（Penguin literary criticism）
Penguin, 1991, c1983
2nd ed
- : pbk
Available at 3 libraries
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"This edition first published in the U.S.A. by the University of Chicago Press 1983, published in Peregrine Books 1987, reprinted in Penguin Books 1991"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliography(p. 459-520) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
How do novelists communicate with their readers and involve us with their characters? In this book, the author answers this question with analyses of many kinds of narrative - from Homer to Hemingway, from the Book of Job to James Joyce. He considers, for example, how Henry James uses "unreliable narrators" (who reveal far more than they are aware of), how Jane Austen controls our sympathy and judgement and how "objective" novelists such as Flaubert convey their beliefs and values as clearly as prophets like D.H.Lawrence.
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