Style and rhetoric of short narrative fiction : covert progressions behind overt plots
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Style and rhetoric of short narrative fiction : covert progressions behind overt plots
（Routledge studies in rhetoric and stylistics, 7）
Routledge, 2014
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-170) and index
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Description
In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and deeper level, throughout the text. In this volume, Dan Shen systematically investigates how stylistic analysis is indispensable for uncovering this covert progression through rhetorical narrative criticism. The book brings to light the covert progressions in works by the American writers Edgar Allan Poe, Stephan Crane and Kate Chopin and British writer Katherine Mansfield.
Table of Contents
Foreword J. Hillis Miller Introduction. Part 1: Style and Covert Progression in American Short Fiction 1. Style, Unreliability, and Hidden Dramatic Irony: Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" 2. Style and Unobtrusive Emasculating Satire: Crane's "An Episode of War" 3. Style, Surprise Ending, and Covert Mythologization: Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" Part II: Style and Different Forms of Covert Progression in Mansfield's Fiction 4. Style, Changing Distance, and Doubling Irony: Mansfield's "Revelations" 5. Style and Concealed Social Protest: Mansfield's "The Singing Lesson" 6. Style and Secretly Unifying the Digressive: Mansfield's "The Fly." Coda.
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