...Patrick O'Donnell James Phelan , Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narration ( Ohio State UP , 2017 ), pp. 304 , cloth, $89.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Novel, Inc. 2020 Of roughly the same vintage as he, though possessing entirely different theoretical...

... to be a case-study in what James Phelan has called "the interpretive halbit to preserve the mimetic" (28). The investment in mimesis takes several forms, one of which is the aforementioned tendency to read narrative tech- niques mimetically. More problematic is its extension into Richardson's...

... to an ethics of fiction, thus, The Storyteller offers an example of how, in James Phelan's words, “the technical choices of the narrative entail ethical consequences” ( 23 ). The different ethical situations stemming from the position in which readers are placed in a novel marked by a double-voiced discourse...