The Pragmatics of Insignificance: Chekhov, Zoshchenko, Gogol by Cathy Popkin

The Pragmatics of Insignificance: Chekhov, Zoshchenko, Gogol

Cathy Popkin

304 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

informative reflective fast-paced
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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...

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