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Eloquent Reticence - Withholding Information in Fictional Narrative (Paperback)
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Eloquent Reticence - Withholding Information in Fictional Narrative (Paperback)
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The importance of the ethics of form in literature has only
recently gained broad recognition and has thus far been explored
mainly from the position of moral philosophy and critical theory.
Leona Toker develops a narratological approach to the subject,
based on studying "reticence" in works of fiction. Reticence
consists in narrative techniques through which writers create
information gaps that build interest, enhance tension, and control
the reader's comprehension of theme, character, and event. Using
novels by Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Conrad, Forster, and Faulkner,
Toker demonstrates how the withholding of information affects
readers' attitudes, stimulates their reassessment, and leads to a
self-critical reorientation -- and how such manipulation of
attention has specific ethical and aesthetic significance. Drawing
on descriptive poetics, reader-response criticism, and information
theory, Toker marks the parallel situations of the characters in
the fiction she analyzes and of the readers who encounter it, and
presents a novel approach to the issue of first and repeated
readings. The inquiry into the twofold role of the reader opens the
discussion of narrative techniques to ethical issues. Through her
analysis of silences in representative works Toker makes a
meaningful contribution to modern narrative study and offers new
insights into a number of familiar novels. This well informed,
sensitive, and judicious study will appeal to scholars interested
in narrative theory and ethical criticism and to students of
Faulkner and of the classical English novel.
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