Story and Situation: Narrative Seduction and the Power of Fiction Volume 12

by Ross Chambers

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Ross Chambers shifs the emphasis to precisely the play of authority and mastery by focusing on the narrative situation or the "point" of telling a story in given context. He studies the relation between teller and listener in a set of French, English, and American short stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and detects in that relationship the key to the power of fiction. In each of these stories, the author identifies...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0816612986

ISBN13:9780816612987

Release Date:March 1984

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Language Arts Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Movements & Periods

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