TY  - BOOK
AU  - Booth,Wayne C
TI  - The rhetoric of fiction
AV  - PN3451.B725.R448 1961 
PY  - 1961///
CY  - [Chicago]
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Technique
N1  - Includes bibliography and index; Artistic purity and the rhetoric of fiction. Telling and showing ; 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 author's voice in fiction. The uses of reliable commentary ; Telling as showing: dramatized narrators, reliable and unreliable ; Reliable narrators as dramatized spokesmen for the implied author ; 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; 2
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