Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction / Dan Shen

Public ISBD Titre : Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction : Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Dan Shen, Auteur Editeur : Routledge Année de publication : 2014 Collection : Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics Importance : 200 p. Format : 24 x 17 x 1 centimetres (0.36 kg) ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-415-63548-6 Langues : Anglais Résumé : In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and deeper level, throughout the text. In this volume, Dan Shen systematically investigates how stylistic analysis is indispensable for uncovering this covert progression through rhetorical narrative criticism. The book brings to light the covert progressions in works by the American writers Edgar Allan Poe, Stephan Crane and Kate Chopin and British writer Katherine Mansfield. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: Foreword J. Hillis Miller Introduction. Part 1: Style and Covert Progression in American Short Fiction 1. Style, Unreliability, and Hidden Dramatic Irony: Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" 2. Style and Unobtrusive Emasculating Satire: Crane's "An Episode of War" 3. Style, Surprise Ending, and Covert Mythologization: Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" Part II: Style and Different Forms of Covert Progression in Mansfield's Fiction 4. Style, Changing Distance, and Doubling Irony: Mansfield's "Revelations" 5. Style and Concealed Social Protest: Mansfield's "The Singing Lesson" 6. Style and Secretly Unifying the Digressive: Mansfield's "The Fly." Coda. Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction : Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots [texte imprimé] / Dan Shen, Auteur . - United Kingdom : Routledge, 2014 . - 200 p. ; 24 x 17 x 1 centimetres (0.36 kg). - (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics) . ISBN : 978-0-415-63548-6 Langues : Anglais Résumé : In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and deeper level, throughout the text. In this volume, Dan Shen systematically investigates how stylistic analysis is indispensable for uncovering this covert progression through rhetorical narrative criticism. The book brings to light the covert progressions in works by the American writers Edgar Allan Poe, Stephan Crane and Kate Chopin and British writer Katherine Mansfield. Note de contenu : Table of Contents: Foreword J. Hillis Miller Introduction. Part 1: Style and Covert Progression in American Short Fiction 1. Style, Unreliability, and Hidden Dramatic Irony: Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" 2. Style and Unobtrusive Emasculating Satire: Crane's "An Episode of War" 3. Style, Surprise Ending, and Covert Mythologization: Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" Part II: Style and Different Forms of Covert Progression in Mansfield's Fiction 4. Style, Changing Distance, and Doubling Irony: Mansfield's "Revelations" 5. Style and Concealed Social Protest: Mansfield's "The Singing Lesson" 6. Style and Secretly Unifying the Digressive: Mansfield's "The Fly." Coda.

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