A01=Wayne C. Booth
analysis
art
artistic purity
Author_Wayne C. Booth
authorial silence
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composition studies
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fiction courses
fictional forms
impersonal techniques
implied author
important critical works
literary criticism
manipulating mood
narrative form
objective neutrality
point of view
postulated reader
realism
rhetoric books
standard reference
technique
telling vs showing
textbooks
theory
thought-provoking
unmediated reality
unreliable narrator
various methods
Product details
- ISBN 9780226065588
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 14 x 20mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 1983
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms—such as "the implied author," "the postulated reader," and "the unreliable narrator"—have become part of the standard critical lexicon.
For this new edition, Wayne C. Booth has written an extensive Afterword in which he clarifies misunderstandings, corrects what he now views as errors, and sets forth his own recent thinking about the rhetoric of fiction. The other new feature is a Supplementary Bibliography, prepared by James Phelan in consultation with the author, which lists the important critical works of the past twenty years—two decades that Booth describes as "the richest in the history of the subject."
For this new edition, Wayne C. Booth has written an extensive Afterword in which he clarifies misunderstandings, corrects what he now views as errors, and sets forth his own recent thinking about the rhetoric of fiction. The other new feature is a Supplementary Bibliography, prepared by James Phelan in consultation with the author, which lists the important critical works of the past twenty years—two decades that Booth describes as "the richest in the history of the subject."
