Download or read book The Rhetoric of Fiction written by Wayne C. Booth and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rhetoric is the author's term for the means by which the writer makes known his vision to the reader and persuades him of its validity; and he demonstrates convincingly that there is no essential difference between ostentatiously rhetorical novelists like Fielding and Dickens, and the admired masters of impersonality--Flaubert, James, Joyce ... this is a major critical work which should be required reading for everyone concerned in the academic study of prose fiction." [Modern Language Review].