Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction

Sternberg, M. (1978). Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction. Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1978

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https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780801819797verified

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Domain-specific

• Audience Reveal
  • What makes the moment a reveal is not that the fact is inherently surprising, but that the discourse controls when and how the audience can first apprehend it as relevant.
• Setup and Payoff
  • Exposition supplied after a resolution may explain it retroactively, but it did not prepare the audience and therefore cannot do the same earnedness work

    This sourceSternberg's study of preliminary versus delayed exposition establishes that the placement of expositional material relative to the event it bears on changes the reader's experience; the evaluative language of earnedness is the article's, not his.

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