C. Dale Young – Doubt and Uncertainty: The Adverbial Gesture as Rhetorical Strategy (July 2023)

There are are many strategies to construct a speaker or narrator who seems convincing to a reader, but a great many of these reside, oddly enough, within the architectures of uncertainty and doubt. With an eye focused on two particular adverbs, Young explores examples of these strategies in work by Carl Phillips, Colson Whitehead, Marianne Moore, and Donald Justice.