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Coming to terms : the rhetoric of narrative in fiction and film /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chatman, Seymour Benjamin, 1928-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1990.
Subjects:
Narration (Rhetoric)
Fiction > History and criticism.
Motion picture plays > History and criticism.
Motion pictures and literature.
Motion pictures > Semiotics.
Table of Contents:
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Narrative and two other text-types
  • Description is no textual handmaiden
  • What is description in the cinema?
  • Argumentation in film: Mon oncle d'Amérique
  • In defense of the implied author
  • The implied author at work
  • The literary narrator
  • The cinematic narrator
  • A new point of view on "point of view"
  • A new kind of film adaptation: The French lieutenant's woman
  • The "rhetoric" "of" "fiction."