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Kirilloff, Gabi.

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'This, Reader, Is No Fiction': Examining the Rhetorical Uses of Reader Address across the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Novel.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	'This, Reader, Is No Fiction': Examining the Rhetorical Uses of Reader Address across the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Novel./
作者:	Kirilloff, Gabi.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
面頁冊數:	204 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-12A(E).
標題:	British & Irish literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10840949
ISBN:	9780438208476

'This, Reader, Is No Fiction': Examining the Rhetorical Uses of Reader Address across the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Novel.
Kirilloff, Gabi.

'This, Reader, Is No Fiction': Examining the Rhetorical Uses of Reader Address across the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Novel. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 204 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2018.

As a rhetorical device, reader address can be put to a variety of seemingly contradictory purposes; address can both pull the reader into the story ("you feel yourself sinking, sinking, down into bottomless abysses") and draw attention to discourse ("With the reader's permission I beg, at this point of my narrative, to indulge in one or two extrinsic observations"). The use of address is tied to specific rhetorical goals: authors can use address to foster sympathy, implicate readers, and incite fear. Though address has been discussed within the context of individual narratives (for example, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre), this dissertation takes a broader approach by combining "distant" and close reading techniques to look at the historical trends in the usage of address across the nineteenth century. I ask questions such as: do male and female authors tend to address their readers differently? Does address diminish over the course of the nineteenth century?

ISBN: 9780438208476Subjects--Topical Terms:

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British & Irish literature.

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