Includes index.
Introduction : disclosure functions, narrator functions, and the distinctiveness of character narration, or, A rhetoric and ethics of "Barbie-Q"
The lessons of "Weymouth" : the implied author, unreliability, and ethical positioning : The remains of the day
Unreliable narration, restricted narration, and the implied author in memoir : Angela's ashes and (a glance at) Tis
Dual focalization, discourse as story, and ethics : Lolita
Suppressed narration in confessional memoir : The kiss
Progression and audience engagement in lyric narratives : "Now I lay me" and "Doc's story"
Epilogue : serial narration, observer narration, and mask narration.
Living to tell about it : a rhetoric and ethics of character narration by James Phelan. ISBN 0801489288. Published by Cornell University Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.