Table of Contents:
  • 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.