Living to tell about it
Subtitle: a rhetoric and ethics of character narration
By: James Phelan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Characters and characteristics in literature; Ethics in literature; Narration (Rhetoric)
Description: In "Living to Tell About it", James Phelan takes up the challenges offered by diverse narratives including Kathryn Harrison's "The Kiss", Ernest Hemingway's "Now I Lay Me", Kazuo Ishiguro's "Remains of the Day" and John Edgar Wideman's "Doc's Story."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-228) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : disclosure functions, narrator functions, and the distinctiveness of character narration, or, A rhetoric and ethics of "Barbie-Q"; title: The implied author, unreliability, and ethical positioning : The remains of the day; title: Unreliable narration, restricted narration, and the implied author in memoir : Angela's ashes and (a glance at) 'Tis; title: Dual focalization, discourse as story, and ethics : Lolita; title: Suppressed narration in confessional memoir : The kiss; title: Progression and audience engagement in lyric narratives : "Now I lay me" and "Doc's story"; title: Epilogue : serial narration, observer narration, and mask narration