
Story and Situation
Narrative Seduction and the Power of Fiction
Ross Chambers(Author)
University of Minnesota Press
Will be published approx. on 30. March 1984
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-8166-1298-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 the narrative situation by recourse to the metaphor of seduction, a phenomenon Chambers finds characteristic of literary production in the modern period.
"Story and Situation is a powerful work of criticism, the best work in short narrative I know, and will redirect critics' attention to a form which has always engaged readers but has recently been neglected by literary theorists. . . . It is clear, assured, and intelligently paced."-Jonathan Culler, Cornell University
"Story and Situation is a powerful work of criticism, the best work in short narrative I know, and will redirect critics' attention to a form which has always engaged readers but has recently been neglected by literary theorists. . . . It is clear, assured, and intelligently paced."-Jonathan Culler, Cornell University
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-1298-7 (9780816612987)
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Ross Chambers is professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Michigan.
Wlad Godzich teaches comparative literature at the University of Minnesota.
Wlad Godzich teaches comparative literature at the University of Minnesota.