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Book Review: Dan Shen,Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction: Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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First published online November, 2014

Book Review: Dan Shen,Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction: Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots

Volume 23, Issue 4

https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947014547628

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References

Brooks

(1984) Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative. New York: Knopf.

Phelan

(2007) Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Toolan

(2009) Narrative Progression in the Short Story: A Corpus Stylistic Approach. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins.

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