The Rhetoric of Fiction
8 best books like The Rhetoric of Fiction (Wayne C. Booth): Oreo, Aspects of the Novel, Narrative Discourse, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, Anatomy of Criticism, The Rise of the Novel, Updated Edition, Blade Runner: A Movie, Negrophobia
| Author | Fran Ross |
| ISBN | 1555534643 |
One of a few works of satire written by African American women, Oreo is an uproariously funny novel about relations between African Americans and Jews. It is as fresh and outrageous today as when it was first published in 1974.
Born of a Jewish father and black mother, Oreo grows up in Philadelphia...
| Author | E.M. Forster |
| ISBN | 0156091801 |
E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Oliver Stallybrass, and features a new preface...
| Author | Gérard Genette |
| ISBN | 0801492599 |
Gerard Genette, a critic of international stature, here builds a systematic theory of narrative upon an analysis of the writings of Marcel Proust, particularly Remembrance of Things Past. Adopting what is essentially a structuralist approach, the author identifies and names the basic constituents...
| Author | M.H. Abrams |
| ISBN | 0195014715 |
It's the first time I've had this reaction when reading an 'academic' book: awe and envy. I usually have 2 stock reactions: 1. interesting, but the author's argument was screwed in A and B manner and 2. how did this guy even get his phd?! in a cereal box!?
M.H. Abrams is too good to be anywhere near...
| Author | Northrop Frye |
| ISBN | 0691069999 |
Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. Employing examples of world literature from ancient times to...
| Author | Ian P. Watt |
| ISBN | 0520230698 |
The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era.
In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the...
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0912652462 |
(the movie got its title from this earlier book)
"In this futuristic screenplay vision of a strife-and-disease-plagued America in 1999, Burroughs finds the cure for a decaying civilization in the medicine practiced by underground physicians and surgeons. These heroic healers, in turn,...
| Author | Darius James |
| ISBN | 0312093500 |
A satire in which a snotty, overprivileged, and despite trying-too-hard-to-be-with-it, racist brat is hexed after being insulting & disrespectful to the family maid. But rather than bringing external curses on her, it does what the best hexes should----stirs up all of her own subconscious...
