...Katra Byram Abstract The current reckoning with systemic bias and discrimination calls for centering historical and social context in narrative theory, as in other domains of academic and public life. This article undertakes that centering in rhetorical narrative theory. Informed by genre theory...

...Roger Edholm Abstract James Phelan presents his rhetorical approach to narrative in opposition to the existing paradigm in contemporary narrative theory. His rhetorical poetics is therefore described as a search for a new paradigm. This article argues, however, that Phelan's view of narrative does...

...David Gorman Richard Walsh, The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction , Ohio State University Press, 2007. x + 194 pp. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2010 Reconsidering Narrative Theory Rhetorically David Gorman Northern Illinois University...

...Sarah Copland; James Phelan Abstract This article proposes to revise rhetorical narrative theory's model of audiences in fiction (actual, authorial, narrative, ideal narrative, and narratee) by replacing the term/concept of the ideal narrative audience with that of the ideal narratee , defined...

... James . 2007 . Experiencing Fiction: Judgements, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative . Columbus : Ohio State University Press . Phelan James . 2017 . Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative . Columbus : Ohio State University Press...

... the genre. Rhetorical theory sees the novel as activating a double consciousness in its readers, and this view goes hand in hand with its conception of character. The first consciousness, that of the narrative audience, involves the reader projecting herself or himself into an observer position within...

... than as an object (Herman et al. 2012: 3) and grounds its theory on the principle that narrative is “a communicative event, a rhetorical action in which an author addresses an audience for some purpose(s)” (Phelan 2011: 57). According to Phelan, the model of narrative communication that Sey...

... the German tradition has concentrated on rhetoric and voice (with reception theory constituting a largely separate area of inquiry), narratology, which frames the text within a symmetry of real, implied, and fictional intelligences, has always had the potential to pose questions about how narrative functions...

..., such as pictured and picture-less, mimetic and transformed, notional and actual, abbreviated and described, printed and screen, canonical artwork and non-art image, narrative and poetic ekphrasis, the introduction further discusses ekphrastic theories with a specific focus on their relevance to its practices...

..., with implications for the reader’s empathy. It examines how “resonance” between paired voices on separate narrative levels occurs when repetition of a deictic across juxtaposed passages or narration and dialogue leads readers to sense a rhetorical continuity despite the grammatical discontinuity. Copyright © 2018...

... “Narrative Progression,” in Herman . 2005 : 359 – 60 . 2005b “Rhetorical Approaches to Narrative,” in Herman . 2005 : 500 – 504 . Phelan James Rabinowitz Peter J. , eds. 2005 A Companion to Narrative Theory ( Malden, MA : Blackwell ). Poe Edgar Allan 1984...

... to lay out a general theory of engaging with narrative and not merely to document his personal experiences with certain texts. In other words, if Phelan’s rhetorical-ethical approach is to pass muster as a theory of narrative, its claims must hold beyond the confines of his own critical prac- tice...

...), Literary Second Cities (2017), The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History (2019), and Literatures of Urban Possibility (2021). Sarah Copland is associate professor of English at MacEwan University. She has published work on rhetorical and cognitive approaches to narrative theory...

... rhetorical approaches to narrative to fully investigate questions of authorship and ethos. She notes that this orientation, with its focus on the narratologist as interpreter, combines what W. H. Abrams (in his fourfold distinction among “theories of poetry”) called the “mimetic” and the “expressive...

... 1999 “Rhetoric and Its Double: Reflections of the Rhetorical Turn in the Human Sciences,”in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: A Reader , edited by John Louis Lucaites, Celeste Michelle Condit, and Sally Caudill, 194 -212 (New York: Guilford). Genette, Gérard 1990 “Fictional Narrative, Factual...

... intelligence (AI), as represented by ChatGPT, can produce clearly recognizable narrative texts . But ChatGPT does not yet produce rhetorical narrative acts , even as users almost automatically seek to turn its texts into such acts. 1 As I elaborate on these points in what follows, my goal is not to make...

..., and Winston). Gerlach, John 1989 ‘‘The Margins of Narrative: The Very Short Story, the Prose Poem, and the Lyric in Short Story Theory at a Crossroads, edited by Susan Lohafer and Jo E. Clarey, 74–84 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University). Phelan • Rhetorical Literary...

... History. James Phelan, Distinguished University Professor of English at Ohio State University, is editor of Narrative and coeditor of the Ohio State University Press series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative. He has devoted much of his own scholarship to developing a rhetorical theory of narrative...

... . Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative . Columbus : Ohio State University Press . Phelan James . 2011 . “ Progression, Speed, and Judgment in Kafka’s ‘Das Urteil’ .” In Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading , edited by Lothe Jakob...

... to a further shortcoming in Williams’s theory of style. Williams has a tendency to conflate the biographical author with the fictional narrator, part of his larger failure to account for fictionality as such.4 Walsh’s (2010: 35) rhetorical approach, however, begins from the position that narrative...