The Rhetoric of Fictionality : Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction

• Tác giả: Richard Walsh
• ISBN-13: 978-0814272169
• Thông tin xuất bản: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2007]
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (194 pages) : , illustrations.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 462099
• Chủ đề: 1. Fiction--History and criticism; 2. Fiction--Technique; 3. Ideology and literature; 4. Narration (Rhetoric); 5. Ideologie et litterature; 6. Narration; 7. Roman--Histoire et critique; 8. Erzähltechnik; 9. Erzähltheorie; 10. Erzähltheorie; 12. Fiktion; 13. Fiktion; 17. Narrativik; 18. Narratologi; 19. Rhetorik; 20. Rhetorische Analyse; 21. Romaner

Tóm tắt

"Narrative theory has always been centrally concerned with fiction, yet it has tended to treat fictions as if they were merely the framed or disowned equivalents of nonfictional narratives. A rhetorical perspective upon fictionality, however, sees it as a direct way of meaning and a distinct kind of communicative gesture. The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction by Richard Walsh argues the merit of such a perspective and demonstrates its radical implications for narrative theory." "The rhetorical model of fictionality advanced in this book offers up new areas of inquiry into the purchase of fictiveness itself upon questions of narrative interpretation. It urges a fundamental reconception of the apparatus of narrative theory by theorizing the conditions of significance that make fictions conceivable and worthwhile."--Jacket.