The Rhetoric of Fiction (Textbook Binding)
Format: Textbook Binding
ISBN:
9780226065779 (0226065774)
Publish date: October 28th 1961
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 455
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Academic,
Reference,
Humanities,
Language,
Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Literary Fiction,
Philosophy,
Theory
(Original Review, 1981-03-28)When Booth came up with the idea of the "unreliable narrator," he wasn't speaking to writers; he was reminding critics and teachers and readers in general of something every decent writer of fiction has always known: that a narrator is a voice, and a voice is a character...
The copy I've found has pencilled in the margins of p. 165: "This only helps in critical analysis. I don't believe it helps in writing". Seems like a fair assessment of the whole.
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