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Intends to bear on a variety of ancient and modern masterpieces - Homer's "Odyssey", the Bible, Fielding, Trollope, Balzac, Jane Austen, Henry James, and Faulkner, among others.

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Chapter One What is Exposition? An Essay in Temporal Delimitation Chapter Two Exposition and Order of Presentation: Some Preliminary Notes Chapter Three Delayed and Distributed Exposition in the Odyssey: The Dynamics of Narrative Interest Chapter Four Order of Presentation, Delayed and Distributed Exposition, and Strategies of Rhetorical Control Chapter Five The Rhetoric of Anticipatory Caution: First Impressions in oFirst ImpressionsO and the Poetics of Jane Austen Chapter Six Retardatory Structure, Expositional Suspension, and the Detective Story Chapter Seven A Plea for Preliminary and Concentrated Exposition: The Cases of Trollope and Balzac Chapter Eight Expositional Motivation, Temporal Structure, and Point of View (1): Varieties of Omniscient Narration Chapter Nine Expositional Motivation, Temporal Structure, and Point of View (2): Restricted and Self-Restricted Narration Notes Index

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      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 22 March 1993
      ISBN-13 9780253207913
      978-0253207913
      ISBN-10 0253207916
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Intends to bear on a variety of ancient and modern masterpieces - Homer's "Odyssey", the Bible, Fielding, Trollope, Balzac, Jane Austen, Henry James, and Faulkner, among others.

      Table of Contents
      Chapter One What is Exposition? An Essay in Temporal Delimitation Chapter Two Exposition and Order of Presentation: Some Preliminary Notes Chapter Three Delayed and Distributed Exposition in the Odyssey: The Dynamics of Narrative Interest Chapter Four Order of Presentation, Delayed and Distributed Exposition, and Strategies of Rhetorical Control Chapter Five The Rhetoric of Anticipatory Caution: First Impressions in oFirst ImpressionsO and the Poetics of Jane Austen Chapter Six Retardatory Structure, Expositional Suspension, and the Detective Story Chapter Seven A Plea for Preliminary and Concentrated Exposition: The Cases of Trollope and Balzac Chapter Eight Expositional Motivation, Temporal Structure, and Point of View (1): Varieties of Omniscient Narration Chapter Nine Expositional Motivation, Temporal Structure, and Point of View (2): Restricted and Self-Restricted Narration Notes Index

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