This book focuses on how readers can be 'manipulated' during their experience of reading fictional texts and how they are incited to perceive, process and interpret certain textual patterns. Offering fine-grained stylistic analysis of diverse genres, including crime fiction, short stories, poetry and novels, the book deciphers various linguistic, pragmatic and multimodal techniques. These are skilfully used by authors to achieve specific effects through a subtle manipulation of deixis, metalepsis, dialogue, metaphors, endings, inferences or rhetorical, narratorial and typographical control. Exploring contemporary texts such as The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Remains of the Day and We Need to Talk About Kevin, chapters delve into how readers are pragmatically positioned or cognitively (mis)directed as the author guides their attention and influences their judgment. They also show how readers' responses can, conversely, bring about a certain form of manipulation as readers challenge the positions the texts invite them to occupy.
págs. 1-28
págs. 31-49
págs. 50-69
‘The novel of the future’: Author’s manipulation in Henry Green’s Nothing (1950) and Doting (1952)
págs. 70-91
Building a world from the day’s remains: Showing, telling, re-presenting
págs. 92-114
Manipulating inferences: Interpretative problems and their effects on readers
págs. 117-145
Surprise and story ending: Readers’ responses to textual manipulation in a short story by J. D. Salinger
págs. 146-171
Manipulating metaphors: Interactions between readers and ‘Upon Opening the Chest Freezer’
págs. 172-192
Manipulation in Agatha Christie’s detective stories: Rhetorical control and cognitive misdirection in creating and solving crime puzzles
págs. 195-214
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