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The importance of the ethics of form in literature has only recently gained broad recognition and has thus far been explored mainly from the position of moral philosophy and critical theory. Leona Toker develops a narratological approach to the subject, based on studying ""reticence"" in works of fiction.Reticence consists in narrative techniques through which writers create information gaps that build interest, enhance tension, and control the reader's comprehension of theme, character, and event. Using novels by Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Conrad, Forster, and Faulkner, Toker demonstrates how

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Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker shows how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other. Toker views these narratives and texts against the background of historical information about the Soviet and the Nazi regimes of repression. Writers at the center of this work include Varlam Shalamov, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Ka-Tzetnik, and others including Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniya Ginzburg, and Jorge Semprun illuminate the discussion. Toker's twofold analysis concentrates on the narrative qualities of the works as well as how each text documents the writer's experience. She provides insight into how fictionalized narrative can double as historical testimony, how references to events might have become obscure owing to the passage of time and the cultural diversity of readers, and how these references form new meaning in the text. Toker is well-known as a skillful interpreter of gulag literature, and this text presents new thinking about how gulag literature and Holocaust literature enable a better understanding about testimony in the face of evil.

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Ethics in literature --- Literary form --- Literature --- Aesthetics --- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 --- Conrad, Joseph, --- Dickens, Charles --- Eliot, George, --- Fielding, Henry --- Hardy, Thomas, --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, --- Joyce, James --- Kafka, Franz --- Shalamov, Varlam Tikhonovich --- Sterne, Laurence --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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The Twentieth Century Russian Short Story: A Critical Companion is a collection of the most informative critical articles on some of the best twentieth-century Russian short stories from Chekhov and Bunin to Tolstaya and Pelevin. While each article focuses on a particular short story, collectively they elucidate the developments in each author's oeuvre and in the subjects, structure, and themes of the twentieth-century Russian short story. American, European and Russian scholars discuss the recurrent themes of language's power and limits, of childhood and old age, of art and sexuality, and of cultural, individual and artistic memory. The book opens with a discussion of the short story genre and its socio-cultural function. This book will be of value to all scholars of Russian literature, the short story, and genre theory.

Russian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- Short stories, Russian -- History and criticism. --- Short stories, Russian --- Russian fiction --- Languages & Literatures --- Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures --- Russian short stories --- History and criticism