Since this is a standalone book, not one in a series, it seems like there will not be another season of Arthur & George. The Arthur & George miniseries is based on the Julian Patrick Barnes novel of the same name. After getting hooked by the plot, I found myself wondering, could there be an Arthur & George Season 2 after this Sunday's finale? Unfortunately, that doesn't look likely, but there are a few other things PBS could do instead. It turned out that the charming show centered on the very famous author of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, his new adventure, and amateur sleuthing. I went into the series blind, as the plot was unfamiliar to me, but the names involved certainly rang a bell. By investigating the persuasive valences of competing stories, I aim to reconcile the rhetoric of narrative with a wider understanding of narrative as a category that is fundamentally relevant to the constructions of reality that we operate in our effort to make the world of experience comprehensible and containable.After turning out the mega-hit Downton Abbey and this summer's sexiest period drama Poldark (and yes, I am counting the days until it returns), there were some high expectations for Masterpiece: Arthur & George on PBS. This article is an attempt to approach the various modes of knowledge and of representation at play in Barnes’s novel with the critical instruments made available by recent developments in rhetoric-oriented narratology. While the narratives’ contest for ethos status is suggestive and celebrative of the fluidity of truth, it is the modes, definition and role of fiction, I propose, that hold centre-stage position in Arthur and George, reinstating a classical opposition, fiction vs. Summary/Abstract: The generic hybridity of Julian Barnes’s Arthur and George heralds the tensions between its competing narratives and the attendant value systems. Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu Keywords: Julian Barnes Arthur and George narrative generic hybridity rhetoric identity Englishness vision Competing Narratives in Julian Barnes’s Arthur and GeorgeĬompeting Narratives in Julian Barnes’s Arthur and George Author(s): Ana-Karina Schneider
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