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Rhetorical Narratology (Stages) Hardcover - 1999
by Kearns, Michael
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- Hardcover
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- Title Rhetorical Narratology (Stages)
- Author Kearns, Michael
- Binding Hardcover
- Condition New
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press
- Date 1999-10-01
- Features Dust Cover, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0803227426
- ISBN 9780803227422 / 0803227426
- Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.27 x 6.3 x 0.87 in (23.55 x 16.00 x 2.21 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Narration (Rhetoric), Discourse analysis, Narrative
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99010618
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.001
From the jacket flap
In Rhetorical Narratology, Michael Kearns redresses this one-sidedness by combining traditional narratology's tools for analyzing texts with rhetoric's tools for analyzing audiences. Guiding Kearns's approach is speech-act theory, which, in emphasizing the rule-governed context in which any text is produced and received, provides the means for describing how the structures of narrative may affect certain audiences in certain ways. Rhetorical narratology applies fundamental concepts from speech-act theory to draw together the strengths of rhetoric and narratology. Rhetoric contributes the steady focus on the interaction between text and reader as that interaction occurs in specific cultural contexts and through time. Narratology provides the crucial distinction between "story" and "discourse, " -- between the "what" and the "how" of a narrative. Concentrating on the "how" has produced sophisticated treatments of such concepts as "fiction, " "narrativity, " and "point, " as well as detailed analyses of temporal structure, point of view, and speech representation. The central question that rhetorical narratology attempts to answer, then, is how do the various narrative elements isolated by narratologists actually work on readers?