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Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration (review)
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Olson's Maximus poem as discussed by the authors is the signal act of a poet claiming full authority and range and the voicing of romantic yearning cycled directly from letters to Boldereff.Abstract:
letter's language in the poem. Embedded in a text that is both the signal act of a poet claiming full authority and \"range\" and the voicing of romantic yearning cycled directly from letters to Boldereff, Olson's Maximus hovers in what can be read as the poem's trans-subjective borderland. \"Flashing more than a wing, / than any romantic thing, than memory, than place,\" Olson's poetic text blurs the boundaries between the private and the public acknowledgment, the mythic and the ordinary self a shift that, if not carried forward in the life, has clear consequences for the art:read more
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The rhetoric of fiction
TL;DR: This article analyzed how novelists communicate with their readers and involve us with their characters, from Homer to Hemingway, from the Book of Job to James Joyce, and found that unreliable narrators reveal far more than they are aware of.
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Narrative as rhetoric: technique, audiences, ethics, ideology
TL;DR: In this paper, a stream-of-consciousness account of reading and re-sponding to the character of Beloved is presented, where the focus is on a specific hypothesis that some textual recalcitrance cannot be fully expained, even though it functions very productively in our reading.