Re: Re[4]: THE RHETORICAL THEORY
Darlene Sybert (c557506@SHOWME.MISSOURI.EDU)
Thu, 8 Aug 1996 11:54:27 -0500
On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, M C Morgan wrote:
> I don't have any problem teaching omniscient viewpoint in lit either - but
> the next day I'll show that it's a rhetorical trick or device (aka a human
> construction). Gerard Genette, _Narrative Discourse_, does a brilliant
> job of showing just how writers can construct it, how they appear to take
> an omniscient view--while at the same time withholding just enough
> omniscience so as not to reveal what happens next.
>
> Hmmm... wonder if that addresses questions of god's-eye view in rhetoric.
Bingo!
Darlene Sybert
http://www.missouri.edu/~c557506/index.htl
University of Missouri at Columbia (English)
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