The rhetoric of literary communication : from classical English novels to contemporary digital fiction /: from classical English novels to contemporary digital fiction. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Virginie Iché, Sandrine Sorlin.
• Editors: Iché, Virginie; Sorlin, Sandrine
• Contents: Introductory Chapter: Addressing Readers: New Theoretical Perspectives Virginie Iché & Sandrine Sorlin (Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier, France) I. Ethical Transactions with Readers Chapter 1. Authorial risk-taking: The relationship between Dickens and his readers Roger Sell (Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland) Chapter 2. "I hope I shall please my readers": Negotiating the Author-Reader Relationship in Two Corpora of British Novels, 1778-1814 Juliette Misset (University of Strasbourg, France) Chapter 3. "You are my fictional audience, and as such I appreciate you very much": Direct Address in Contemporary American Young Adult Fiction About Mental Health Sara K. Day (Truman State University, USA) II. Revisiting Authorial Agency Chapter 4. Interpellation and Counter-interpellation in the Novel Jean-Jacques Lecercle (University of Paris Ouest Nanterre, France) Chapter 5. Deciphering the Joycean Address: Elusive Authority and Reader Agency in Ulysses Olivier Hercend (Sorbonne University, France) Chapter 6. "The Rest is Silence": Readerly Wo/anderings in the Unsaid Claire Majola-Leblond (University Jean Moulin - Lyon 3, France) III. Challenging Readers Chapter 7. (Im)politeness and the Question of Address in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood: a Pragmatics Approach Maurice Cronin (Paris Dauphine, France) Chapter 8. Phatic, Polemical, and Metaleptic Addresses to Readers in William Gerhardie’s The Polyglots Catherine Hoffman (University of Le Havre-Normandie, France) Chapter 9. Humouring the Reader in Alan Bennett’s "A Chip in the Sugar" Vanina Jobert-Martini & Manuel Jobert (University Jean Moulin - Lyon 3, France) IV. From Oral to Digital Fiction and Back Chapter 10. "You know, are you you?" Being versus Playing the Second-Person in Digital Fiction Alice Bell (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) Chapter 11. Addressing the Reader and/or Character in Gamebooks: Ryan North’s To Be or Not to Be and Romeo and/or Juliet Baharak Darougari (University of Strasbourg, France) Chapter 12. "Now, normally, I wouldn’t be telling you this and you, I’m sure, would be happier if I wasn’t." The Modern-Day Storyteller in Roddy Doyle’s Charlie Savage (2019) Léa Boichard (University Savoie Mont Blanc, France)
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 823.009; English fiction -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000536072; 9781000536065; 9781003094050
• Related ISBNs: 9780367555634
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