Story and Situation : Narrative Seduction and the Power of Fiction /

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Studies the relation between teller and listener in a set of French, English, and American short stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chambers, Ross (Author)
Other Authors: Godzich, Wlad
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1984]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Narration (Rhetoric)
Fiction > Technique.
Fiction.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > General.
Roman > Histoire et critique.
Roman > Technique.
Narration.
Fiction > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Chapter One: Story and Situation; Chapter Two: Self-Situation and Readability; Chapter Three: Narratorial Authority and "The Purloined Letter"; Chapter Four: Seduction Denied: "Sarrasine" and the Impact of Art; Chapter Five: Seduction Renounced: "Sylvie" as Narrative Act; Chapter Six: An Invitation to Love: Simplicity of Heart and Textual Duplicity in "Un Coeur Simple"; Chapter Seven: Not for the Vulgar? The Question of Readership in "The Figure in the Carpet"; Chapter Eight: Gabriel Conroy Sings for His Supper, or Love Refused ("The Dead").
  • Chapter Nine: Authority and Seduction: The Power of FictionAppendix A: Saki, "The Open Window"; Appendix B: Marcel Schwob, "Les Sans-Gueule"; Bibliography; Index.

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