The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction

by Richard Walsh

Book Overview

Narrative theory has always been centrally concerned with fiction, yet it has tended to treat fictions as if they were merely the framed or disowned equivalents of nonfictional narratives. A rhetorical perspective upon fictionality, however, sees it as a direct way of meaning and a distinct kind of communicative gesture. The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction by Richard Walsh argues the merit of such a perspective and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814252478
• ISBN13: 9780814252475
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"