Narrative Fissures: Reading and RhetoricNarrative Fissures: Reading and Rhetoric is a guide to applied rhetorical criticism of narrative in diverse fields such as cultural studies, ethnography, psychotherapy, historiography, critical legal studies, education, communication, and medicine. |
Contents
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On Framing | 45 |
On Heteroglossia | 54 |
On Temporary and Permanent Gaps | 66 |
Rhetoric Using Fissures Writing the Metanarrative | 85 |
An Emergent Genre | 91 |
Speaking the Unspeakable | 105 |
Reading and Rhetoric Ethical Implications | 123 |
Notes | 133 |
Bibliography | 140 |
Index | 147 |
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aestheticism Aila Arthur Kleinman assertion audience Behar Cameron chapter characters Christine claims Clifford Geertz complicity and resistance contemporary context Crapanzano creates critical cross-gendered narratives cultural death describes direct speech discourse Dorfman Ehud Barak Elizabeth Frankenstein ethical ethnographic female feminist fiction first-person focus frame narrative Frankenstein gender gender-marking governess governess's Hanna hermeneutic heteroglossia human husband Ida's implied interpretation Kate Vaiden Lawrence's Likud literary looking male Mary Shelley's metanarrative metaphor Mew's mimetic Moll Flanders monster mother narrative fissure narrative mode narrative strategy narrator narrator's novel original emphasis Percy Shelley permanent gaps point of view political polyphony Polysemy position potential preface Raft in Blue rative Rayona reader complicity reader resistance reading reflectively reflexive response rhetorical ritual sacrifice Scheper-Hughes self-reflexive sentence social society South Africa speaker speaking story tells textual fissures third-person tion tive ventriloquism victim Victor Frankenstein voice Walton Wolfgang Iser woman women writing Yellow Raft
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Page 18 - You gave the wrong answer,' said the sphinx. 'But that was what made everything possible,' said Oedipus. 'No,' she said. 'When I asked, what walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening, you answered Man. You didn't say anything about Woman.' 'When you say Man,' said Oedipus, 'you include women too. Everyone knows that.
Page 54 - Heteroglossia, once incorporated into the novel (whatever the forms for its incorporation), is another's speech in another's language, serving to express authorial intentions but in a refracted way. Such speech constitutes a special type of double-voiced discourse. It serves two speakers at the same time and expresses simultaneously two different intentions: the direct intention of the character who is speaking, and the refracted intention of the author.
Page 35 - I certainly did not owe the suggestion of one incident, nor scarcely of one train of feeling, to my husband, and yet but for his incitement, it would never have taken the form in which it was presented to the world.
Page 35 - I am by no means indifferent to the manner in which whatever moral tendencies exist in the sentiments or characters it contains shall affect the reader; yet my chief concern in this respect has been limited to the avoiding the enervating effects of the novels of the present day, and to the exhibition of the amiableness of domestic affection, and the excellence of universal virtue.
Page 51 - He looked in vague pain all round the top of the room and drew his breath, two or three times over, as if with difficulty. He might have been standing at the bottom of the sea and raising his eyes to some faint green twilight. "Well - I said things.
Page 40 - As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself similar, yet at the same time strangely unlike to the beings concerning whom I read, and to whose conversation I was a listener. I sympathised with, and partly understood them, but I was unformed in mind; I was dependent on none and related to none. The path of my departure was free;' and there was none to lament my annihilation.
Page 85 - Doing ethnography is like trying to read (in the sense of "construct a reading of") a manuscript— foreign, faded, full of ellipses, incoherences, suspicious emendations, and tendentious commentaries, but written not in conventionalized graphs of sound but in transient examples of shaped behavior, (p.
Page 85 - What the ethnographer is in fact faced with - except when (as, of course, he must do) he is pursuing the more automatized routines of data collection - is a multiplicity of complex conceptual structures, many of them superimposed upon or knotted into one another, which are at once strange, irregular, and inexplicit, and which he must contrive somehow first to grasp and then to render.
Page 52 - But he had already jerked straight round, stared, glared again, and seen but the quiet day. With the stroke of the loss I was so proud of he uttered the cry of a creature hurled over an abyss, and the grasp with which I recovered him might have been that of catching him inhis fall.