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- Title
RHETORICAL CHOICES AND EFFECTS IN JEAN STAFFORD'S "THE END OF A CAREER".
- Authors
LIRCA, Corina Alexandrina
- Abstract
The present paper focuses on "The End of a Career,"the last short-story in Jean Stafford's 1969 collection titled Collected Short-Stories, using the rhetorical approach to narrative as an investigative method. The result is an investigation of the purpose behind the artistic communicative act that is "The End of a Career," starting from the range of rhetorical effects that accompany the progression of this narrative. As a rule, the narrator's choices of narrative technique and mannerrepresent the way in which (s)he seeks to influence the audience's cognition, emotions and valuesand reveal the purpose of the communicative act. Therefore, I will show that this realistic inverted-chronology reconstruction of Angelica Early'slife the narrator carries out is meant to bring to the short story the dignity of tragedy and reveal the protagonist as a twentieth-century tragic heroine.
- Subjects
STAFFORD, Jean, 1915-1979; END of a Career (Short story); RHETORIC; COMMUNICATION in art; COGNITION; PROTAGONISTS (Persons) in literature
- Publication
Studia Universitatis Petru Maior - Philologia, 2015, Vol 19, p139
- ISSN
1582-9960
- Publication type
Article