A Rhetoric Of The Unreal by Christine Brooke-Rose
Studies in Narrative and Structure, Especially of the Contemporary Novel
This study analyzes how fictional worlds are constructed and made persuasive through linguistic and narrative strategies, with particular attention to the mechanisms that produce the fantastic or ‘unreal.’ Combining narratology, stylistic analysis, and close readings of modern and experimental prose, it examines devices such as point of view, tense and aspect, modality, deictics and rhetorical figures to show how language enacts otherness, uncertainty and estrangement. It argues that the fantastic operates less as a fixed genre than as a rhetoric that negotiates belief, temporality and readerly engagement, and offers tools for understanding how experimental narratives create their effects.
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- 1981
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- British
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- English
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