Narrative apostrophe: reading, rhetoric, resistance in Michel Butor's 'La modification' and Julio Cortazar's "Graffiti." (Second-Person Narrative)

From: Style | Date: September 22, 1994| Author: Kacandes, Irene | Copyright information

The term "narrative apostrophe" is an effective way to describe anomalous communicative circuits of second-person narrative fiction. The double address of apostrophe to the apostrophized and to the orator's audience parallels that in second-person fiction to the narratee-protagonist and to the actual reader. This rhetorical model accounts more fully than does traditional narratology for demonstrated confusions among real readers, inscribed readers, and narratees and suggests a criterion for c...

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