A Rhetorical Analysis of Unreliable Narration in The Loudest Voice  

作　　者：安妮 AN Ni

机构地区：[1]杭州电子科技大学外国语学院

出　　处：《海外英语》2020年第2期211-213,255,共4页Overseas English

摘　　要：Based on rhetorical research methods of the unreliability,the paper intends to explore the unreliable narrative strategies of the narrator in Grace Paley's The Loudest Voice from the perspectives of the Wayne Booth's criterion of the distance between the narrator and the implied author and James Phelan's extension of unreliability on the basis of classical rhetorical narratology,point⁃ing out that the unreliability serves as the narrative trap which is set up to reveal the inner theme of the work:"The loudest voice"-what the protagonist thought she certainly possessed was only her illusion instead of the truth,and Eastern European Jewish com⁃munity was de facto marginalized by the mainstream culture at that time.Based on rhetorical research methods of the unreliability, the paper intends to explore the unreliable narrative strategiesof the narrator in Grace Paley ’s The Loudest Voice from the perspectives of the Wayne Booth’s criterion of the distance between thenarrator and the implied author and James Phelan ’s extension of unreliability on the basis of classical rhetorical narratology, pointing out that the unreliability serves as the narrative trap which is set up to reveal the inner theme of the work: "The loudest voice"-what the protagonist thought she certainly possessed was only her illusion instead of the truth, and Eastern European Jewish community was de facto marginalized by the mainstream culture at that time.

关 键 词：UNRELIABILITY RHETORICAL unreliable narration Wayne Booth The Loudest Voice Jewish 

分 类 号：I106[文学—世界文学]