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In what was likely Booth's most-recognized book, The Rhetoric of Fiction, he argued that all narrative is a form of rhetoric. The book can be seen as his critique of those he viewed as mainstream critics. Booth argues that beginning roughly with Henry James, critics began to emphasize the difference between "showing" and "telling" in fiction ...
The book covers the history of rhetoric, and uses modern examples of how persuasion is used in politics, advertising, media - and how you can teach a kid to argue. [ 6 ] References
His book Play As Emotional Survival is a response to his own deconstruction of play theories in his work, The Ambiguity of Play (1997, Harvard University Press). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Sutton-Smith's interdisciplinary approach included research into play history and cross cultural studies of play, as well as research in psychology , education , and folklore .
"Tolkien and the Rhetoric of Childhood"-yes-Describes Bilbo Baggins's quest in The Hobbit as fitting the pattern of fiction for children, with an omniscient narrator, characters that children can identify with, a story that moves forwards in time, and a geography with separate safe and dangerous places. Joseph McLellan
A Rhetoric of Irony [1] is a book about irony by American literary critic Wayne Booth. Booth argues that in addition to forms of literary irony, there are ironies that lack a stable referent. Booth argues that in addition to forms of literary irony, there are ironies that lack a stable referent.
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).
Illustration by Gustave Doré of Baron Munchausen's tale of being swallowed by a whale. Tall tales, such as those of the Baron, often feature unreliable narrators.. In literature, film, and other such arts, an unreliable narrator is a narrator who cannot be trusted, one whose credibility is compromised. [1]
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.