James Phelan

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James Phelan is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Ohio State University, Boston College, Stanford University, University of Chicago

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James Phelan

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#3513

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#5824

Historical Rank

#1616

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James Phelan 's Degrees

Bachelors English Literature Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, James Phelan is an American writer, literary scholar, and Distinguished University Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and has been granted an honorary Ph.D degree from Aarhus University in Denmark . In 2021, Phelan received the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Narrative. The citation for the Award reads in part,"Phelan has influenced generations of narrative theorists and literary scholars, as he has provided a powerful model for thinking about the purposes of literature and reasons and methods to engage with it. In so doing, he has transformed and energized the interdisciplinary field of narrative studies." The recording of the Award ceremony from the May 2021 ISSN Conference can be found at the Society's website.

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James Phelan 's Published Works

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Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative (1989) (131)
A Thematics of Character@@@Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative (1991) (65)
The Tempest: A Case Study in Critical Controversy (2000) (31)
'Self-Help' for Narratee and Narrative Audience: How "I" - and "You"? - Read "How." (Lorrie Moore's Short Story 'How' from the Collection 'Self-Help') (Second-Person Narrative) (1994) (27)
The Implied Author, Deficient Narration, and Nonfiction Narrative: Or, What's Off-Kilter in the Year of Magical Thinking and the Diving Bell and the Butterfly? (2011) (22)
Fictionality (2017) (18)
Character, Progression, and the Mimetic-Didactic Distinction (1987) (16)
Voice, tone, and the rhetoric of narrative communication (2014) (11)
Authors, Resources, Audiences: Toward a Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative (2018) (9)
Rhetorical aesthetics and other issues in the study of literary narrative (2006) (9)
Local Fictionality within Global Nonfiction: Roz Chast's Why Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? (2016) (9)
Fictionality, Audiences, and CharacterA Rhetorical Alternative to Catherine Gallagher’s “Rise of Fictionality” (2018) (8)
Cognitive Narratology, Rhetorical Narratology, and Interpretive Disagreement: A Response to Alan Palmer's Analysis of Enduring Love (2009) (8)
Reading the American Novel 1920-2010 (2013) (7)
Looking Backward, Looking Forward: MLA Members Speak (2000) (6)
On Teaching Critical Arguments: A Matrix of Understanding (2001) (6)
Reading the American Novel 1920-2010: Phelan/Reading (2013) (6)
Debating Rhetorical Poetics: Interventions, Amendments, Extensions (2018) (5)
Debating Rhetorical Narratology: On the Synthetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects of Narrative (2020) (5)
Data, Danda, and Disagreement@@@Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism@@@The Act of Interpretation: A Critique of Literary Reason@@@Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities (1983) (4)
"Now I Lay Me": Nick’s Strange Monologue, Hemingway’s Powerful Lyric, and the Reader’s Disconcerting Experience (1998) (4)
What Do We Owe Texts? Respect, Irreverence, or Nothing at All? (1999) (4)
Toward a Rhetorical Perspective on Social Minds (2011) (4)
Rhetorical Theory, Cognitive Theory, and Morrison’s “Recitatif” (2015) (3)
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader (2005) (3)
Reading for the Character and Reading for the Progression : John Wemmick and Great Expectations (1989) (2)
Unnatural Narratives and the Task of Theory Construction (2016) (2)
Judgment, Progression, and Ethics in Portrait Narratives: The Case of Alice Munro's "Prue" (2009) (1)
Selling with Character. (1986) (1)
The Literary Theoretical Contribution of Ralph W. Rader (2010) (1)
The Beginning and Early Middle of Persuasion; Or, Form and Ideology in Austen's Experiment with Narrative Comedy (2009) (1)
Foreword Before Reading in Its Own Terms (2007) (1)
Progression, Speed, and Judgment in ―das Urteil‖; or What Kafka and a Rhetorical Theory of Narrative Can Do for Each Other (2013) (1)
The Controversy over the Ending: Did Mark Twain Sell Jim down the River? (1995) (1)
Narrative Theory, 2006–2015: Some highlights with applications to Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2017) (1)
The Ideal Narratee and the Rhetorical Model of Audiences (2022) (1)
Imagining a Sequel to Wayne C. Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction – Or a Dialogue on Dialogue (2010) (1)
Donald J. Trump's Storytelling, May 12–June 7, 2020; or, Can His Saying Make Things So? (2021) (1)
Rhetorical Theory of Narrative and Contemporary Narrative Poetics: A Conversation with James Phelan (2019) (1)
The Life of Samuel Clemens and the Reception of Huckleberry Finn (1995) (0)
A REPLY TO MR. FURNIVALL’S COUPLE OF PROTESTS. (0)
Irony, Ethics, and Lyric Narrative in Miriam Engelberg’s Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person (2020) (0)
Advancing the Project of "Recentering Literary Education": An Overlapping Model, a Friendly Amendment, and a Proposed Revision (2014) (0)
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (review) (2006) (0)
Principles of Rhetorical Reading (2013) (0)
Pluralism, Politics, and the Evaluation of Criticism (2007) (0)
The Controversy over Race: Does Huckleberry Finn Combat or Reinforce Racist Attitudes? (1995) (0)
Meaning as Concept and Extension: Some Problems (1986) (0)
Narrative as Argument in Atul Gawande’s “On Washing Hands” and “Letting Go” (2017) (0)
Nonfictionality, Function, and Salience – Or, Affect, Ethics, Aesthetics and Huntington’s Disease in Saturday and Inside the O’Brien (2018) (0)
Interlacings of Narrative and Lyric: Ernest Hemingway’s "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" and Sandra Cisneros’s "Woman Hollering Creek" (2007) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1987) (0)
Pluralism and Its Powers; Metapluralism and Its Problems (1984) (0)
Partial Badness (2010) (0)
The Controversy over Gender and Sexuality: Are Twain’s Sexual Politics Progressive, Regressive, or Beside the Point? (1995) (0)
A Portfolio of Illustrations from the 1885 Edition (1995) (0)
Is King Lear Like the Pacific Ocean or the Washington Monument?: Critical Pluralism and Literary Interpretation (1990) (0)
Introduction: Reading the American Novel, 1920–2010 (2013) (0)
From the perspective of literary and media theory, the relationship between narrative and biomedicine manifests along two intimately entangled lines: narrativity and referentiality (2018) (0)
What Does it Mean to Work at Reading Narratives? (2009) (0)
But What's the Right Answer? Bottom Lines in Teaching the Humanities (2008) (0)

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