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Pros
Booth detailed three types of literary interest that are available for technical manipulation in fiction. Booth shows how writers' approaches to narration have evolved to the 20th-century situation of authors' attempts to efface the narrator altogethe... Read More
Booth is disarmingly candid about the lack of critical consensus on just about any aspect of literature, and what this implies about its so-called experts. He is not an ivory-tower lecturer; he comes across as someone who loves fiction and who enjoys ... Read More
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Quality
It is extremely comprehensive and usually balances and objective that also reads fairly quickly
Excellent wellwritten work that is extremely helpful for the lit crit to understand the relationships between author projected ... Read More
34despite the realistic effects that modern authors have achieved according to booth trying to distinguish narratives in this w... Read More
Showing” various forms of narration author’s intended commentary the unreliable narration etc
Price
So he does have a value system
I think there is quite a bit of value here mainly because there is just a preponderance of information and examination of all t... Read More
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Although this second edition was written in 1983 and so the art and rhetoric of fiction in the modern day may have well changed in the past nearly 40 years i think that wayne c
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In this way the book is particularly challenging because of its depth and so i had to take this book in exceedingly small mouthfuls each day rather than huge gulps
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For that reason it took me over a month or so to read because i was reading other works alongside this one and did not want to overwork my brain
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I think there is quite a bit of value here mainly because there is just a preponderance of information and examination of all that is in how fictional form works and the relationship an author has with her or her audience when the present a work
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Through the author’s rhetoric—which may come in the form of various methods—the author shapes their novel and what they want the reader to take from their work
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There are many points on how an author give a voice to themselves within the framework of their novel
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There are many focal points within the rhetoric of fiction so i think each reader can take a chapter that delves into something they find of interest
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And while it was a challenging book to read not light reading here at all there are so many interesting thinking points contained within in a book about books