About the Author

James Phelan is Distinguished University Professor of English at The Ohio State University and author of Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative (OSU Press, 2007).

Reviews

"In Somebody Telling Somebody Else, James Phelan reveals how major parts of his theoretical arsenal relate to one another. As he does this, he gives his readers a view of what it's like to do rhetorical narrative poetics, and an idea of the places it will take them that other approaches will not. This is a superb, stimulating book that demonstrates how powerful a tool the rhetorical approach to the poetics of narrative is. It will be widely read and influential." --Harry E. Shaw, author of Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot