The Rhetoric of Fictionality

Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction (THEORY INTERPRETATION NARRATIV)

by Richard Walsh

2007 194 pages eng

"Narrative theory has always been centrally concerned with fiction, yet it has tended to treat fictions as if they were merely the framed or disowned equivalents of nonfictional narratives. A rhetorical perspective upon fictionality, however, sees it as a direct way of meaning and a distinct kind of…