Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction

By: Meir Sternberg

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What Is Exposition? An Essay in Temporal Delimitation	p. 1
Exposition and Order of Presentation: Some Preliminary Notes	p. 35
Delayed and Distributed Exposition in the Odyssey: The Dynamics of Narrative Interest	p. 56
Order of Presentation, Delayed and Distributed Exposition, and Strategies of Rhetorical Control	p. 90
The Rhetoric of Anticipatory Caution: First Impressions in "First Impressions" and the Poetics of Jane Austen	p. 129
Retardatory Structure, Expositional Suspension, and the Detective Story	p. 159
A Plea for Preliminary and Concentrated Exposition: The Cases of Trollope and Balzac	p. 183
Expositional Motivation, Temporal Structure, and Point of View (1): Varieties of Omniscient Narration	p. 236
Expositional Motivation, Temporal Structure, and Point of View (2): Restricted and Self-Restricted Narration	p. 276
Notes	p. 307
Index	p. 325
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