(print) xiv, 237 p. ; 23 cm

Preface xi -- INTRODUCTION -- Narrative as Rhetoric : Reading the Spells of Porter's "Magic" 1 -- PART ONE -- Narrative Progression and Narrative Discourse : Lyric, Voice, and Readerly Judgments 25 -- Character and Judgment in Narrative and in Lyric : Toward an Understanding of Audience Engagement in The Waves 27 -- Gender Politics in the Showman's Discourse; or, Listening to Vanity Fair 43 -- Voice, Distance, Temporal Perspective, and the Dynamics of A Farewell to Arms 59 -- PART TWO -- Mimetic Conventions, Ethics, and Homodiegetic Narration 85 -- What Hemingway and a Rhetorical Theory of Narrative Can Do for Each Other : The Example of "My Old Man" 87 -- Reexamining Reliability : The Multiple Functions of Nick Carraway 105 -- Sharing Secrets 119 -- PART THREE -- Audiences and Ideology 133 -- Narratee, Narrative Audience, and Second-Person Narration : How I—and You?—Read Lorrie Moore's "How" 135 -- Narrating the PC Controversies : Thoughts on Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education 154 -- Toward a Rhetorical Reader-Response Criticism : The Difficult, the Stubborn, and the Ending of Beloved 173 -- Appendix -- Why Wayne Booth Can't Get with the Program; or, The Nintentional Fallacy 191 -- Notes 199 -- Glossary 215 -- Works Cited 221 -- Index 229