Story and situation : narrative seduction and the power of fiction /
Studies the relation between teller and listener in a set of French, English, and American short stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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| Formatua: | Licensed eBooks |
| Hizkuntza: | ingelesa |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press
[1984]
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| Saila: | Theory and history of literature.
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttts752 |
Aurkibidea:
- 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 Cœur 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.