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050 00 $aPN3499$b.H28 1994
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100 1 $aHanne, Michael.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94019162
245 14 $aThe power of the story :$bfiction and political change /$cMichael Hanne.
260 $aProvidence :$bBerghahn Books,$c1994.
263 $a9410
300 $ax, 262 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1. Narrative and Power -- 2. Ivan Turgenev: A Sportsman's Notebook (1852) -- 3. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) -- 4. Ignazio Silone: Fontamara (1933) -- 5. Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) -- 6. Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses (1988).
520 $aCan a Novel Cause Riots, start a war, free serfs or slaves, break up marriages, drive readers to suicide, close factories, bring about legal change, swing an election, or serve as a weapon in a national or international struggle?
520 8 $aThese are some of the larger, direct, social and political effects which have been ascribed to certain exceptional novels and other works of narrative fiction over the last two hundred years or so. In their crudest form, claims of this kind are obviously naive, oversimplifying the complex ways in which literary texts "work in the world" and oversimplifying, too, the causal processes required to account for a major social or political change.
520 8 $aBut is it possible to modify or refine such claims in the light of contemporary theory and historical research so that the mechanisms by which each text has engaged with the political forces of the time are adequately described? The author explores this question in the form of a theoretical essay on narrative and power, followed by five detailed case studies of works by Turgenev, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ignazio Silone, Solzhenitsyn and Salman Rushdie each of which had or were said to have had a major impact on the political events in their time.
520 8 $aForcefully argued and written with a minimum of jargon, this book will appeal to a wide readership well beyond that of the specialist in literature.
650 0 $aFiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009124243
650 0 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048055
650 0 $aPolitical fiction$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010107078
852 00 $boff,glx$hPN3499$i.H28 1994