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In this absorbing study--the first comprehensive exploration of the rhetoric of the novel--Zahava Karl McKeon investigates the complex interrelations of critical poetics, grammars, dialectics, and rhetorics to devise a systematic means of dealing with the structure of prose works as communicative objects. Using the vocabulary and conceptual resources of Aristotle and Cicero, she pursues this exploration to discover the kinds of arguments that characterize novels, to find a way of distinguishing novels from other discursive wholes, and to discriminate different genres of the novel. McKeon's arguments are supplemented by readings of a variety of texts, including the novels and stories of Gunter Grass, John Fowles, Robert Coover, and Flannery O'Connor.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Novels and Arguments
• Subtitle: Inventing Rhetorical Criticism
• Author: Zahava Karl McKeon
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 270
• EAN: 9780226560342
• ID: 04547747
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 470 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 165 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 1982

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