Ethos and Narrative Interpretation
Korthals Altes, Liesbeth
ISBN: | 9780803248366 |
Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press |
Published: | 1 August, 2014 |
Format: | Hardback |
Language: | English |
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Ethos and Narrative Interpretation
Korthals Altes, Liesbeth
Ethos and Narrative Interpretation examines the fruitfulness of the concept of ethos for the theory and analysis of literary narrative. The notion of ethos refers to the broadly persuasive effects of the image one may have of a speaker's psychology, world view, and emotional or ethical stance. How and why do readers attribute an ethos (of, for example, sincerity, reliability, authority, or irony) to literary characters, narrators, and even to authors? Are there particular conditions under which
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