Bennett, Arnold 43
Besant, Walter 25, 32, 37, 105
Beyond Culture (Trilling) 8, 16, 44,
45–6, 47–8, 50, 73, 87, 94, 99,
108, 109, 111, 112, 121, 122
Bialostosky, Don 142
Blackmur, Richard P. 41, 121, 133
Bloom, Alexander 138, 140
Booth, Wayne C.: on authorial and
narrative audiences 16, 100–1,
103, 126; on author’s image
15–16; on Bakhtin 129; on career
author 15–16, 64; on coduction
114–15; on communication in
narrative 2, 4, 15–16, 32–3,
36–7, 38, 50, 53, 54, 55, 59,
63–6, 69, 70, 85, 95, 99,
112–14, 117, 122, 123, 126,
128; on distance 66–7, 68, 114,
124; on dramatized and
undramatized narrators 56–60,
61, 62, 64, 74, 77, 78, 79, 80,
81, 82, 86, 124, 128; on ethics
112, 114, 124, 126; on extrinsic
and intrinsic rhetoric 50–3, 100;
on flesh-and-blood author 15–16,
64, 114–15; on flesh-and-blood
reader 15–16, 101, 126; on
Genette 127–9; on impersonality
34, 60–3; on implied author 2,
15–16, 58, 59, 63–6, 70, 73, 80,
90, 95, 96, 101, 102, 103, 104,
113, 114–15, 124, 129, 142; on
implied reader 15–16, 95–6,
101, 103, 104, 114–15; on irony
67, 68, 141; on James 69, 127;
and judgement of novels 114–17;
legacy of 1–3, 119–30; life and
context of 3–4, 11–15; on Lolita
(Nabokov) 112–13, 114, 116,
117; on mere observer 59–60,
82; on mock reader 96; on
morality 33–7; on narrative and
authorial audiences 16, 100–1,
103, 127; on narrative
commentary 34, 50, 53, 56,
60–3, 65; on narrator-agent
58–60; and New Criticism 63–6,
97–8; on omniscience and
privilege 57, 58; on overstanding
101–3, 114, 115, 116; on
postulated reader 96; on readers,
reading, and interpretation
15–16, 52, 65, 68, 87–104, 114,
115; reading, model of 103;
on realism and representation
50–3; on reliable and unreliable
narrators 66–70, 112–14; on
rhetoric 12–13, 14, 17, 32–6,
38, 53, 54, 63, 65, 69, 88, 116,
126, 140, 141, 142; on Sacks
127, 128; on scene 60–3; on
showing and telling 34, 51, 60–3;
on society and the novel 15–16;
on summary 60–3; and textual
autonomy 97–8; on Trilling 94,
112–13; on Turn of the Screw, The
(James) 69,127; on understanding
101–3; writings of: Company We
Keep, The 12, 15–16, 16–17, 33,
43, 64, 65, 87, 94, 101, 102,
113, 114, 115, 116–17, 125,
127, 141, Critical Understanding
13, 32–3, 84–5, 87–9, 95, 98,
100–2, 140; Modern Dogma and
the Rhetoric of Assent 12, 141; Now
Don’t Try to Reason with Me 12,
140; Rhetoric of Fiction, The 2, 12,
13, 15–16, 21, 33–7, 39, 50–3,
55–70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 85, 87–8,
89, 94–5, 96, 100, 101, 112–13,
114, 115–17, 121–2, 123, 125,
126–9, 130, 140, 141; Rhetoric of
Rhetoric, The 13
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