Living to tell about it : a rhetoric and ethics of character narration
In "Living to Tell About it", James Phelan takes up the challenges offered by diverse narratives including Kathryn Harrison's "The Kiss", Ernest Hemingway's "Now I Lay Me", Kazuo Ishiguro's "Remains of the Day" and John Edgar Wideman's "Doc's Story."
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 236 pages ; 23 cm
9780801442971, 9780801489280, 0801442974, 0801489288
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Introduction : disclosure functions, narrator functions, and the distinctiveness of character narration, or, A rhetoric and ethics of "Barbie-Q"
The lessons of "Weymouth" : the implied author, unreliability, and ethical positioning : The remains of the day
Unreliable narration, restricted narration, and the implied author in memoir : Angela's ashes and (a glance at) Tis
Dual focalization, discourse as story, and ethics : Lolita
Suppressed narration in confessional memoir : The kiss
Progression and audience engagement in lyric narratives : "Now I lay me" and "Doc's story"
Epilogue : serial narration, observer narration, and mask narration
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