PHILIP ROTH AND THE RHETORICAL EXCHANGE IN FICTIONAL LITERATURE
PHILIP ROTH AND THE RHETORICAL EXCHANGE IN FICTIONAL LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: In view of one of the most important contemporary principles of literature, as it was expressed by Terry Eagleton when he famously stated that for literature to happen the reader is as vital as the author, the paper below is meant to investigate the opinion and attitude of Philip Roth regarding the author-audience communication occasioned by the fiction he writes. In order to be able to reflect upon the rhetorical transactions going on on the site of rothian fictional texts, a precise mode of reading needs being adopted – the rhetorical approach to narrative, a coherent theoretical system with sufficient explanatory power to account for the three elements involved in the literary act –writer, book and reader.

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