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The rhetoric of fiction

by Wayne C. Booth

This study of narrative technique examines how authors engage readers through fictional form. It introduces influential concepts, such as the implied author and the unreliable narrator, to analyse the relationship between the storyteller and the audience.

Accession 21614 ISBN 0226065782 Publisher University of Chicago Press
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