Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction: Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots

Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction: Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots
ISBN-10
1136202412
ISBN-13
9781136202414
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
176
Language
English
Published
2013-11-12
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Dan Shen

Description

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.

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