Voice and silence: A rhetorical analysis of selected works of fiction by Eudora Welty
| dc.contributor.author | McCourt, Helen | |
| dc.contributor.committeeChair | Bridges, Phyllis | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Curry, Evelyn | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Litton, Guy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-05T21:29:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-02-05T21:29:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 12/30/2010 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In The Rhetoric of Fiction, Wayne Booth discusses the narrative choices an author can make to relate a story to his or her reader. Through point of view and authorial distance, an author can offer a clear and deep insight into the meaning of any story. Booth questions the belief of many modern authors and critics who believe that “showing” a story by deleting all entrances, or “intrusions,” by the author to be far superior to “telling” at story through direct authorial voice or through some form of narrator/s. He believes that by considering the differences between “showing” and “telling” a story, an author forces the reader to “consider closely what happens when an author engages a reader fully with a work of fiction; [authors thus] lead us to a view of fictional technique which necessarily goes far beyond the reductions that we have sometimes accepted under the concept of ‘point of view’” (Booth 8-9). The use of point of view to control audience sympathy and interpretation of the story and the use of authorial distance to “show” rather than “tell” a story are skillfully employed by Eudora Welty in narrative fiction to present stories which connect to universal truths and emotions in the reader. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11274/9123 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Language, literature, and linguistics | |
| dc.subject | Authorial distance | |
| dc.subject | Narratology | |
| dc.subject | Point of view | |
| dc.subject | Rhetorical analysis | |
| dc.subject | Voice | |
| dc.subject | Welty, Eudora | |
| dc.title | Voice and silence: A rhetorical analysis of selected works of fiction by Eudora Welty | en_US |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en_US |
| thesis.degree.department | English, Speech, and Foreign Languages | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Rhetoric | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Texas Woman's University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy |