The Rhetoric of Literary Communication

From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction
Herausgeber: Iché, Virginie; Sorlin, Sandrine

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Produktbeschreibung

Building on the notion of fiction as communicative act, this collection brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars to examine the evolving relationship between authors and readers in fictional works from 18th century English novels through to contemporary digital fiction

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781032199672
• ISBN-10: 1032199679
• Artikelnr.: 69921226

Autorenporträt

Virginie Iché is Associate Professor of Linguistics at University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. She is the author of L'esthétique du jeu dans les Alice de Lewis Carroll (2015) and has edited the 92nd issue of the French journal CVE, "Talking to Children in Victorian and Edwardian Children's Literature" (2020). Sandrine Sorlin is Professor of English Linguistics and Stylistics at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. She is the author of Language and Manipulation in House of Cards. A Pragma-stylistic Perspective (2016) and The Stylistics of 'You'. The Second-person Pronoun and its Pragmatic Effects (forthcoming). She is Assistant Editor of Language and Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Addressing Readers: New Theoretical Perspectives
Virginie Iché & Sandrine Sorlin (Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier,
France)
I. Ethical Transactions with Readers
Chapter 1. Authorial risk-taking: The relationship between Dickens and his
readers
Roger Sell (Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland)
Chapter 2. "I hope I shall please my readers": Negotiating the
Author-Reader Relationship in Two Corpora of British Novels, 1778-1814
Juliette Misset (University of Strasbourg, France)
Chapter 3. "You are my fictional audience, and as such I appreciate you
very much": Direct Address in Contemporary American Young Adult Fiction
About Mental Health
Sara K. Day (Truman State University, USA)
II. Revisiting Authorial Agency
Chapter 4. Interpellation and Counter-interpellation in the Novel
Jean-Jacques Lecercle (University of Paris Ouest Nanterre, France)
Chapter 5. Deciphering the Joycean Address: Elusive Authority and Reader
Agency in Ulysses
Olivier Hercend (Sorbonne University, France)
Chapter 6. "The Rest is Silence": Readerly Wo/anderings in the Unsaid
Claire Majola-Leblond (University Jean Moulin - Lyon 3, France)
III. Challenging Readers
Chapter 7. (Im)politeness and the Question of Address in Flannery
O'Connor's Wise Blood: a Pragmatics Approach
Maurice Cronin (Paris Dauphine, France)
Chapter 8. Phatic, Polemical, and Metaleptic Addresses to Readers in
William Gerhardie's The Polyglots
Catherine Hoffmann (University of Le Havre-Normandie, France)
Chapter 9. Humouring the Reader in Alan Bennett's "A Chip in the Sugar"
Vanina Jobert-Martini & Manuel Jobert (University Jean Moulin - Lyon 3,
France)
IV. From Oral to Digital Fiction and Back
Chapter 10. "You know, are you you?" Being versus Playing the Second-Person
in Digital Fiction
Alice Bell (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Chapter 11. Addressing the Reader and/or Character in Gamebooks: Ryan
North's To Be or Not to Be and Romeo and/or Juliet
Baharak Darougari (University of Strasbourg, France)
Chapter 12. "Now, normally, I wouldn't be telling you this and you, I'm
sure, would be happier if I wasn't." The Modern-Day Storyteller in Roddy
Doyle's Charlie Savage (2019)
Léa Boichard (University Savoie Mont Blanc, France)