The Pragmatics of Insignificance: Chekhov, Zoshchenko, Gogol
Cathy Popkin
304 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0804722099
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Language: English
Publish: February 1, 1994
What makes a tale worth telling? When is a detail significant and when extraneous? And how much irrelevant detail can a reader take in stride? This book addresses tellability by looking at texts that raise the question themselves, works by Chekhov, Zoshchenko, and Gogol.