02356cam a22003495i 4500 26889 26861 4696881 EG-ScBUE 20200205121437.0 820729s1983 ilu frb 001 0 eng d 0226065588 (pbk.) 9780226065588 (pbk.) DLC eng rda DLC DLC EG-ScBUE 808.3 BOO 22 Booth, Wayne C. author. 40527 The rhetoric of fiction / by Wayne C. Booth. Second edition. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 1983. xix, 552 pages ; 21 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "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." Artistic 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. Fiction Technique. BUEsh BUEsh HHUUEENN October2018 Reading book Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi052/82013592.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0608/82013592-t.html ddc BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2018-10-28 Purchase 480.00 0 808.3 BOO 000043635 2025-07-15 00:00:00 NB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2018-10-28 Purchase 0 808.3 BOO 000043636 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2018-10-28 BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2018-10-28 Purchase 1 20 808.3 BOO 000043637 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2018-10-28 2018-10-28 BB