James Phelan (pronounced ; born 1951) is an American writer and literary scholar of narratology. He is a third-generation Neo-Aristotelian literary critic of the Chicago School whose work builds on and refines the work of Wayne C. Booth with a focus on the rhetorical aspects of narrative. He is Distinguished University Professor of English at the Ohio State University. (From Wikipedia)
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Phelan, James, 1951-, ed.: After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), also ed. by Jakob Lothe and Susan Rubin Suleiman (PDF at Ohio State)- Phelan, James, 1951-, contrib.: Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Peter J. Rabinowitz (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- Phelan, James, 1951-: Debating Rhetorical Narratology: On the Synthetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2020), also by Matthew Clark (PDF and Epub at Ohio State)
- Phelan, James, 1951-: Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007) (PDF at Ohio State)
- Phelan, James, 1951-, ed.: Fact, Fiction, and Form: Selected Essays (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Ralph Wilson Rader, also ed. by David H. Richter (PDF at Ohio State)
- Phelan, James, 1951-, contrib.: Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Jakob Lothe, Beatrice Sandberg, and Ronald Speirs, also contrib. by Anni Greve, Benno Wagner, Gerhard Neumann, Gerhard Kurz, J. Hillis Miller, and Stanley Corngold (PDF at Ohio State)
- Phelan, James, 1951-: Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1996) (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- Phelan, James, 1951-, ed.: Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), also ed. by David Herman, Peter J. Rabinowitz, Brian Richardson, and Robyn R. Warhol (PDF at Ohio State)
- Phelan, James, 1951-: Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989) (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- Phelan, James, 1951-, ed.: Understanding Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), also ed. by Peter J. Rabinowitz
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