The Power of the Story

Fiction and Political Change

By: Michael Hanne

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Paperback | 1 June 1996

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"...a spirited, well-researched volume ...this highly readable study is an impressive work ofcontemporary criticism, richly deserving of its intended general and academic audiences." * Choice Can a novel cause riots, start a war, free serfs or slaves, break up marriages, drive readers to suicide, close factories, bring about law change, swing an election, or serve as a weapon in a national or international struggle? 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 was said to have had a major impact on the political events in its time. Forcefully argued and written with a minimum of jargon, this book no doubt appeals to a wide readership well beyond that of the specialist in literature.

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CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 1995

"... a spirited, well-researched volume ... this highly readable study is an impressive work ofcontemporary criticism, richly deserving of its intended general and academic audiences." · Choice

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Narrative and Power	p. 1
Ivan Turgenev: a Sportsman's Notebook (1852)	p. 43
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)	p. 75
Ignazio Silone: "Fontamara" (1933)	p. 115
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)	p. 147
Salman Rushdie: "The Satanic Verses" (1988)	p. 191
Index	p. 257
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