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In the 1983 edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction, which included a lengthy addendum to the original 1961 edition, Booth outlined various identities taken on by both authors and readers: The Flesh-and Blood Author, the Implied Author, the Teller of This Tale, the Career Author, and the "Public Myth"; and, the Flesh-and-Blood Re-Creator of Many ...
Seymour Chatman (August 30, 1928 – November 4, 2015) was an American film and literary critic and professor emeritus of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. [ 1 ] He is one of the most significant figures of American narratology (theory of narrative), regarded as a prominent representative of its structuralist branch.
English: PDF version of the Rhetoric and Composition Wikibook. This file was created with MediaWiki to LaTeX . The LaTeX source code is attached to the PDF file (see imprint).
James Phelan (pronounced / ˈ f eɪ l ə n /; [2] born 1951) is an American writer and literary scholar of narratology.He is a third-generation Neo-Aristotelian literary critic of the Chicago School [3] [4] whose work builds on and refines the work of Wayne C. Booth, with a focus on the rhetorical aspects of narrative.
The question for the Chicago School (as it was for Aristotle) was always what the purpose of the theory of criticism was, what hypotheses were brought to bear by the theory about the nature of literature (for instance, whether it consisted of the words alone, or whether it was to be thought of as part of a larger context such as an era or an artist's life), and the definitions of words (such ...
In his 1961 book The Rhetoric of Fiction, Wayne C. Booth introduced the term implied author to distinguish the virtual author of the text from the real author. In addition, he proposed another concept, the career-author : a composite of the implied authors of all of a given author's works. [ 2 ]
In contrast to the emotional rhetoric and poetry of the sophists was a type of rhetoric grounded in philosophy and the pursuit of enlightenment. Aristotle identified rhetoric as one of the three key elements—along with logic and dialectic—of philosophy. The first line of the Rhetoric is: "Rhetoric is a counterpart (antistrophe) of dialectic."
The narrative paradigm incorporates both the pathos and logos form of rhetoric theory. Rhetoric theory was formulated by Aristotle. [45] He defines rhetoric as: the available means of persuasion. [9] It includes two assumptions. Firstly that effective public speakers must consider their audience. Secondly that effective public speakers supply ...