The Rhetoric of Fictionality
Subtitle: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction (THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: November 22, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780814210697
Subjects: General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric); Technique; Theory, etc
Description: "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.