Writing with Andrew | Silent Authors and Questionable Characters | Wayne Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction Part 3 @WritingwithAndrew | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
This is the final installment of the series of videos on Wayne Booth's book, The Rhetoric of Fiction. In this video, we talk about the advantages and pitfalls of authorial silence as well as the ethical implications of different rhetorical choices.


0:00 Introduction
1:34 Authorial Silence
4:11 The Pitfalls of Authorial Silence
7:33 Morality in Fiction
9:27 The End of the Road