In pursuit of narrative dynamics
Subtitle: a study of James Phelan's rhetorical theory of narrative
By: Biwu Shang
Series: European university studies. Series XIV, Anglo-Saxon language and literature -- v. 463 = -- Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XIV, Angelsächsische Sprache und Literatur -- Bd. 463 = -- Publications universitaires européennes. Série XIV, Langue et littérature anglo-saxonnes -- v. 463
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783034305624
Subjects: English philology; Narration (Rhetoric)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beyond the poetics of plot: Phelan's theory of narrative progression; title: A new light on the old concept: Phelan's theory of character narrator; title: The rhetorical approach revisited and updated: phelan's theory of unreliable narration; title: 'Narrator as focalizer', and 'dual focalization': Phelan's theory of focalization; title: The activation of multileveled responses: Phelan's theory of narrative judgments; title: The ethics of 'the told', the ethics of 'the telling', and the ethics of 'the reading': Phelan's theory of narrative ethics.