Ethos and narrative interpretation : the negotiation of values in fiction /

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Author / Creator:Korthals Altes, Liesbeth, author.
Imprint:Lincoln [Nebraska] : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
Description:xvi, 325 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Frontiers of narrative
Frontiers of narrative.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10072608
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ISBN:9780803248366 (hardback)
0803248369 (hardback)
9780803255609 (epub)
9780803255616 (mobi)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Why Ethos?
  • Part 1. Ethos, Narrative, and the Social Construction of Meanings and Values
  • 1. Literary Interpretation, Ethos Attributions, and the Negotiation of Values in Culture
  • 2. Ethos as a Social Construction: Authorial Posturing, Conceptions of Literature, and Value Regimes
  • Part 2. Ethos in Narratology: The Return of the Repressed
  • 3. Narratology between Hermeneutics and Cognitive Science
  • 4. Key Concepts Revised: Narrative and Communication, Embeddedness, Intentionality, Fictionality, and Reading Strategies
  • 5. Whose Ethos? Characters, Narrators, Authors, and Unadopted Discourse
  • Part 3. Further Explorations: Contracts and Ethos Expectations
  • 6. Generic Framing and Authorial Ethos
  • 7. Sincerity and Other Ironies
  • On Narrative, Ethos, and Ethics
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index