The Rhetoric of Fiction (Penguin literary criticism)

The Rhetoric of Fiction (Penguin literary criticism)

by WayneC.Booth (Author)

Synopsis

How do novelists communicate with their readers and involve us with their characters? In this book, the author answers this question with analyses of many kinds of narrative - from Homer to Hemingway, from the Book of Job to James Joyce. He considers, for example, how Henry James uses unreliable narrators (who reveal far more than they are aware of), how Jane Austen controls our sympathy and judgement and how objective novelists such as Flaubert convey their beliefs and values as clearly as prophets like D.H.Lawrence.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 576
Edition: New ed of 2 Revised ed
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 29 Aug 1991

ISBN 10: 014013736X
ISBN 13: 9780140137361