Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction
Published on 22. March 1993
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Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-253-20791-3 (ISBN)
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" . . . this is one of the few books on narrative worth reading and rereading, a study that will make-or should make-a difference in the way we read narrative." -Nineteenth Century Fiction
"This is a remarkable book: original, clear-sighted, and luminously focused on a subject that has never been explored nearly so systematically or intensively." -Dorrit Cohn, Harvard University
This book, long out of print, is now available in a paperback edition, providing another window into one of the most exciting minds working in the areas of literary and biblical literary criticism.
"This is a remarkable book: original, clear-sighted, and luminously focused on a subject that has never been explored nearly so systematically or intensively." -Dorrit Cohn, Harvard University
This book, long out of print, is now available in a paperback edition, providing another window into one of the most exciting minds working in the areas of literary and biblical literary criticism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
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513 gr
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978-0-253-20791-3 (9780253207913)
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Meir Sternberg
Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction
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03/1993
Indiana University Press
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MEIR STERNBERG is Professor of Poetics and Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University and author of The Poetics of Biblical Narrative.
Content
Chapter One
What is Exposition? An Essay in Temporal Delimitation
Chapter Two
Exposition and Order of Presentation: Some Preliminary Notes
Chapter Three
Delayed and Distributed Exposition in the Odyssey: The Dynamics of Narrative Interest
Chapter Four
Order of Presentation, Delayed and Distributed Exposition, and Strategies of Rhetorical Control
Chapter Five
The Rhetoric of Anticipatory Caution: First Impressions in "First Impressions" and the Poetics of Jane Austen
Chapter Six
Retardatory Structure, Expositional Suspension, and the Detective Story
Chapter Seven
A Plea for Preliminary and Concentrated Exposition: The Cases of Trollope and Balzac
Chapter Eight
Expositional Motivation, Temporal Structure, and Point of View (1): Varieties of Omniscient Narration
Chapter Nine
Expositional Motivation, Temporal Structure, and Point of View (2): Restricted and Self-Restricted Narration
Notes
Index
What is Exposition? An Essay in Temporal Delimitation
Chapter Two
Exposition and Order of Presentation: Some Preliminary Notes
Chapter Three
Delayed and Distributed Exposition in the Odyssey: The Dynamics of Narrative Interest
Chapter Four
Order of Presentation, Delayed and Distributed Exposition, and Strategies of Rhetorical Control
Chapter Five
The Rhetoric of Anticipatory Caution: First Impressions in "First Impressions" and the Poetics of Jane Austen
Chapter Six
Retardatory Structure, Expositional Suspension, and the Detective Story
Chapter Seven
A Plea for Preliminary and Concentrated Exposition: The Cases of Trollope and Balzac
Chapter Eight
Expositional Motivation, Temporal Structure, and Point of View (1): Varieties of Omniscient Narration
Chapter Nine
Expositional Motivation, Temporal Structure, and Point of View (2): Restricted and Self-Restricted Narration
Notes
Index