Story and Situation: Narrative Seduction and the Power of Fiction (Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 12)

Ross Chambers ; Foreword By Wlad Godzich. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 239-245. Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Foreword 12 Chapter One: Story and Situation 26 Chapter Two: Self-Situation and Readability 41 Chapter Three: Narratorial Authority and "The Purloined Letter" 73 Chapter Four: Seduction Denied: "Sarrasine" and the Impact of Art 96 Chapter Five: Seduction Renounced: "Sylvie" as Narrative Act 120 Chapter Six: An Invitation to Love: Simplicity of Heart and Textual Duplicity in "Un C艙ur Simple" 146 Chapter Seven: Not for the Vulgar? The Question of Readership in "The Figure in the Carpet" 174 Chapter Eight: Gabriel Conroy Sings for His Supper, or Love Refused ("The Dead") 204 Chapter Nine: Authority and Seduction: The Power of Fiction 228 Appendix A: Saki, "The Open Window" 250 Appendix B: Marcel Schwob, "Les Sans-Gueule" 254 Bibliography 262 Index 272 A 272 B 272 C 273 D 273 E 273 F 274 G 274 H 274 I 274 J 274 K 274 L 274 M 275 N 275 O 275 P 275 R 276 S 276 T 277 U 278 V 278 W 278 Studies the relation between teller and listener in a set of French, English, and American short stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries