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.
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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.
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Minor rubbing. Some slight page-edge soil. VG., dustwrapper. 23x15cm, xi, 289 pp. Contents: Introduction: Triviality & Tellability; Anton Chekhov: Reinventing Events; Mikhail Zoshchenko: Great Strides & Trivial Indiscretions; Zoshchenko & the Politics of Perceptibility; Nikolai Gogol: Distended Discourse & the Pragmatics of Elaboration; Gogol's Coats & Clutter: Content & Its Discontents; Conclusion: Too Little & Too Much-Story & Discourse & the Pragmatics of Insignificance.
