... of Daniel Deronda and Theophrastus of Impressions of Theophrastus Such , this essay argues that Eliot's apparent scapegoats are not designed to affirm the moral vision of Eliot's narrators through negative exemplarity: rather, pharmakos and pharmakeus together generate a complex narrative rhetoric...

...Lauren Byler Anthony Trollope's infamous obsession with composing novels in as efficient a manner as possible founders on the rhetorical excess of the metaphors he employs to signify utility: shoes and shoe making. Like the ornate metaphors for utility that illustrate and obstruct Trollope's theory...

...Marian Eide James Joyce's Ulysses is punctuated by bad jokes. While the novel is itself comedic, the scripted rhetoric of humor throughout the narrative fails, revealing fractures in an Irish community divided by shared colonial experience. Good jokes depend on both communal feeling...

... of speaking. I argue, however, that rather than using narrative to literalize figurative phrases, ironically displaying hidden social mechanisms, Crane's fiction is directly concerned with the processes by which such phrases are themselves born and naturalized in narration. These rhetorical processes...

... the coincidence that they were written at the same time. While the constitution attempts to fix a version of Irish identity preferred by the state, At Swim-Two-Birds _draws on constitutional rhetoric to stress performativity and the flexibility of identity, a utopian dimension that proves unsustainable...

...Kevin A. Morrison This article examines representations of gestural and rhetorical modes of male suffering in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss . It argues that these novels, focusing on the transition from a traditional yeoman economy to a system...

... , coined by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields to capture the epistemic and political confusion surrounding the category of race in the post–civil rights decades. In an era in which the distinction between the truths and lies of the race concept no longer carries much rhetorical force, American...

... narratives of political reform. The novel “relocates” the conventions of these two genres, transplanting the formal, thematic, and rhetorical conventions of each genre to the plotlines and subject matter of the other. Such relocation undermines normative expectations about both genres and opens possibilities...

... traveler. More than rhetorically similar, both texts, I argue, dramatize epistemological crises that precipitate a renewed sense of life's contingency. Both Defoe and Hume employ Puritan spiritual autobiography, and in each case this literary mode's questionable referential status reproduces...

... reading for anyone even remotely interested in emotion between science and the humanities. We need to examine these differences, moreover, equipped with the tools of rhetorical theory, amply construed as “a historically rich field guide to the threatening and promising environments that are especially...

.... De Temmerman is well aware of the theoretical issues involved in discussions of character and the danger of applying modern conceptions to ancient texts; he thus bases his approach rather on classical rhetoric, which includes both handbooks, such as Aristotle's Rhetoric , and collections of school...

...Shai Ginsburg Notwithstanding these reservations, however, Bernard's Rhetorics of Belonging is a rich, insightful study of Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian literature as well as of postcolonial theory. Its greatest merit is that it links questions about Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian literature...

...Patrick O'Donnell Phelan concludes Somebody Telling Somebody Else with several evocative “reflections on the project of rhetorical poetics” (257). It is, self-admittedly, a project still under construction, yet much of the foundational work (and a good deal of its building-out) have been...

..., Douglass nevertheless rejects the slave narrative’s tra- ditional rhetoric of full disclosure. When he describes the physical violence done to enslaved African Americans, for instance, Douglass often stops short of a full revelation of these atrocities. He deflects his reader’s attention at the last...

... explores the racial inflections of chance and design. “One way African-American writers responded to the rhetorical conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union—both of which demanded conformity to differing notions of identity—was to exploit chance as a marker of identity that could...

... to this study, experiment (and its corollary laboratory) tends to metaphorize the city itself as the arena in which the larger social and racial issues of the day could be rhetorically explored 526 novel | fall 2011 and analyzed. In the literature about the yellow fever epidemic of 1793...

... Carolina P, 1990 . Booth , Wayne . “The Empire of Irony.” Georgia Review 37 ( 1983 ): 719 –37. Booth , Wayne . A Rhetoric of Irony . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1974 . “Bootleg Slavery.” Time 4 Mar . 1934 : 14 . Bourne , Randolph . “The Life of Irony.” The Radical...

..., and inconclusive as they assess the impact of the war on the grammar and rhetorical substance of language. Sherry moves carefully between varying methodologies in this volume, at times analyzing the textual history of a piece, at times analyzing its cultural references, and at other times analyzing its...

... ). As Walling notes, one of the main criteria of a classic has traditionally been “staying power” ( 4 ). In these terms, it is possible to read that odd quality to which O'Meally refers as a rhetoric that imposes temporal distance while also registering a quickened pace of social change. And it is possible, too...

... achieved critical mass over the last decade with a parallel, historical interest in the rhetorics of climate, meteorology, and various natural philosophies of disaster. Call it climate criticism or, dare I pronounce it, ‘‘cli-crit Early in Air’s Appearance: Literary Atmosphere in British Fiction, 1660...