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An Inquiry Into Narrative Deception and Its Uses in Fielding's Tom Jones

James F. Smith

出版	Peter Lang, 1993
主題	Foreign Language Study / English as a Second LanguageLanguage Arts & Disciplines / RhetoricLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Criticism / Renaissance
ISBN	08204194199780820419411
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iKZaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Using close rhetorical analysis, Smith argues that Fielding's narrative method in Tom Jones creates an ironic tension between the intrusive narrator and the highly artificial plot. Fielding's narrator employs a rhetoric of deception to maintain the central secret of Tom's birth around which his plot is structured. Such an ironic narrative method ultimately reveals the reader's dependence on conventional assumptions in interpretation and argues for epistemological prudence. Smith questions conventional readings of Tom Jones and shows Fielding's comic novel to be both darker and more philosophical than generally assumed.