Experiencing fiction: judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical theory of narrative

Judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical experience of narrative

Jane Austen's experiment in narrative comedy : the beginning and early middle of Persuasion

Sethe's choice and Toni Morrison's strategies : the beginning and middle of Beloved

Chicago criticism, new criticism, cultural thematics, and rhetorical poetics

Progressing toward surprise : Edith Wharton's "Roman fever"

Delayed disclosure and the problem of other minds : Ian McEwan's Atonement

Rhetorical aesthetics within rhetorical poetics

Interlacings of narrative and lyric : Ernest Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" and Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek"

Narrative in the service of portraiture : Alice Munro's "Prue" and Ann Beattie's "Janus"

Dramatic dialogue as lyric narrative : Robert Frost's "Home burial"

Experiencing fiction and its corpus : extensions to nonfiction narrative and synthetic fiction.