Paradigm shift. Book review: Phelan J. Somebody telling somebody else : a rhetorical poetics of narrative. – Columbus : Ohio state univ. press, 2017. – 274 p.
Paradigm shift. Book review: Phelan J. Somebody telling somebody else : a rhetorical poetics of narrative. – Columbus : Ohio state univ. press, 2017. – 274 p.
James Phelan proposes a paradigm shift for narrative theory, a turn from viewing narrative as a structure to viewing it as a rhetorical action in which a teller selectively deploys the resources of storytelling in order to accomplish particular purposes in relation to particular audiences.
Keywords
rhetorical narratology; Aristotles’ «Poetics»; probable impossibilities vs improbable possibilities; narrative progression; the model of narrative communication; S. Chatman.
