Información General

• Autores: Sandrine Sorlin (coord.)
• Editores: Bloomsbury
• Año de publicación: 2019
• País: Estados Unidos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-1-3500-6297-9, 978-1-3500-6296-2, 978-1-3500-6299-3
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Resumen

• 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.

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Listado de artículos

• • Manipulating positions, representations and viewpoints

    • Introduction: Manipulation in fiction

      Sandrine Sorlin

      págs. 1-28

      

    • Metalepsis, counterfactuality and the forked path in The French Lieutenant’s Woman

      Marina Lambrou

      págs. 31-49

      

    • Social deixis in literature

      Andrea Macrae

      págs. 50-69

      

    • ‘The novel of the future’: Author’s manipulation in Henry Green’s Nothing (1950) and Doting (1952)

      Rocío Montoro

      págs. 70-91

      

    • Building a world from the day’s remains: Showing, telling, re-presenting

      Jeremy Scott

      págs. 92-114

      

  • Readers’ responses to stylistic manipulation

    • Manipulating inferences: Interpretative problems and their effects on readers

      Billy Clark

      págs. 117-145

      

    • Surprise and story ending: Readers’ responses to textual manipulation in a short story by J. D. Salinger

      Laura Hidalgo Downing

      págs. 146-171

      

    • Manipulating metaphors: Interactions between readers and ‘Upon Opening the Chest Freezer’

      Sara Whiteley

      págs. 172-192

      

  • Genre-specific and multimodal manipulation

    • Manipulation in Agatha Christie’s detective stories: Rhetorical control and cognitive misdirection in creating and solving crime puzzles

      Catherine Emmott, Marc Alexander

      págs. 195-214