Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical
Experience of Narrative
Part One. Judgments and Progressions: Beginnings, Middles, Endings
1. Jane Austen¿s Experiment in Narrative Comedy: The Beginning and Early Middle of Persuasion
2. Sethe¿s Choice and Toni Morrison¿s Strategies: The Beginning and Middle of Beloved
3. Chicago Criticism, New Criticism, Cultural Thematics, and Rhetorical Poetics
4. Progressing toward Surprise: Edith Wharton¿s ¿Roman Fever¿
5. Delayed Disclosure and the Problem of Other Minds: Ian McEwan¿s Atonement
6. Rhetorical Aesthetics within Rhetorical Poetics
Part Two. Judgments and Progressions in Lyric Narratives and Portrait Narratives
7. Interlacings of Narrative and Lyric: Ernest Hemingway¿s ¿A Clean, Well-Lighted Place¿ and Sandra Cisneros¿s ¿Woman Hollering Creek¿
8. Narrative in the Service of Portraiture: Alice Munro¿s ¿Prue¿ and Ann Beattie¿s ¿Janus¿
9. Dramatic Dialogue as Lyric Narrative: Robert Frost¿s ¿Home Burial¿
Epilogue: Experiencing Fiction and Its Corpus: Extensions to Nonfiction Narrative and Synthetic Fiction
Indexes
Alice Munro, ¿Prue¿
Ann Beattie, ¿Janus¿