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Novels and Arguments: Inventing Rhetorical Criticism
University of Chicago Press, 1982 Cloth: 978-0-226-56034-2 Library of Congress Classification PN3335.M38 1982 Dewey Decimal Classification 808.3
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In this absorbing study—the first comprehensive exploration of the rhetoric of the novel—Zahava Karl McKeon investigates the complex interrelations of critical poetics, grammars, dialectics, and rhetorics to devise a systematic means of dealing with the structure of prose works as communicative objects. Using the vocabulary and conceptual resources of Aristotle and Cicero, she pursues this exploration to discover the kinds of arguments that characterize novels, to find a way of distinguishing novels from other discursive wholes, and to discriminate different genres of the novel. McKeon's arguments are supplemented by readings of a variety of texts, including the novels and stories of Gunter Grass, John Fowles, Robert Coover, and Flannery O'Connor. See other books on: Arguments | Criticism | McKeon, Zahava K. | Novels | Technique See other titles from University of Chicago Press |
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Novels and Arguments: Inventing Rhetorical Criticism
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
University of Chicago Press, 1982
Cloth: 978-0-226-56034-2
Cloth: 978-0-226-56034-2
In this absorbing study—the first comprehensive exploration of the rhetoric of the novel—Zahava Karl McKeon investigates the complex interrelations of critical poetics, grammars, dialectics, and rhetorics to devise a systematic means of dealing with the structure of prose works as communicative objects. Using the vocabulary and conceptual resources of Aristotle and Cicero, she pursues this exploration to discover the kinds of arguments that characterize novels, to find a way of distinguishing novels from other discursive wholes, and to discriminate different genres of the novel. McKeon's arguments are supplemented by readings of a variety of texts, including the novels and stories of Gunter Grass, John Fowles, Robert Coover, and Flannery O'Connor.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
