Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction

Name: Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction
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ISBN: 9780253207913

ISBN-10: 0253207916

ISBN-13: 9780253207913

Edition: 1993

Authors: Meir Sternberg

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Ò . . . this is one of the few books on narrative worth reading and rereading, a study that will makeÑor should makeÑa difference in the way we read narrative.Ó ÑNineteenth Century Fiction ÒThis is a remarkable book: original, clear-sighted, and luminously focused on a subject that has never been explored nearly so systematically or intensively. . . . It will join the small canon of books written in English that must stand on the shelves of anyone working with problems of fictional theory and narrative technique.Ó ÑDorrit Cohn, Harvard University In the past decade Meir Sternberg has come to be recognized as one of the most exciting minds working in the areas of literary and biblical…

Book details

Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 3/22/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English




What Is Exposition? An Essay in Temporal Delimitation



Exposition and Order of Presentation: Some Preliminary Notes



Delayed and Distributed Exposition in the Odyssey: The Dynamics of Narrative Interest



Order of Presentation, Delayed and Distributed Exposition, and Strategies of Rhetorical Control



The Rhetoric of Anticipatory Caution: First Impressions in "First Impressions" and the Poetics of Jane Austen



Retardatory Structure, Expositional Suspension, and the Detective Story



A Plea for Preliminary and Concentrated Exposition: The Cases of Trollope and Balzac



Expositional Motivation, Temporal Structure, and Point of View (1): Varieties of Omniscient Narration



Expositional Motivation, Temporal Structure, and Point of View (2): Restricted and Self-Restricted Narration


Notes


Index