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

by Ross Chambers

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...

• 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"