Wayne C.Booth,a renowned American literary critic,is celebrated for his classic contribution to modern literary criticism:The Rhetoric of Fiction.This work delves deep into the rhetoric of novels,exploring aspects such as story development,character portrayal,and narrative style.Booth emphasizes the close interplay between authors,readers,and the text,introducing key concepts like aesthetic distance,narrator reliability,implied author,rhetorical strategies,and reader participation,significantly influencing both novel writing and reading.However,discussions within the academic realm regarding the author's actual involvement in these concepts remain limited.This paper,by analyzin implied authorship,aesthetic distance,unreliable narrators and other viewpoints,reveals the profound penetration of authors into novel creation.It explores how authors integrate themselves into the narration,character construction and thematic expression of each story.
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