The authorial agency of narrative

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JAMES PHELAN, Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1996), pp. 237 + xiv, cloth, $35.00, paper, $12.95.

The chapters of this book originally appeared as separate essays in the years 1990-1996, and center on fictions as diverse as Vanity Fair, The Waves, and Beloved; the book also contains a discussion of Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education (154-72), persuasively arguing that narrative theory provides tools for the analysis of non-fictional as well as fictional narratives. The author has provided headnotes and an "Introduction" ...

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