Author: Popkin, Cathy
Title: The Pragmatics of Insignificance: Chekhov, Zoshchenko, Gogol
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1993. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xi,289 pp. Minor rubbing. Some slight page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Triviality & Tellability; Anton Chekhov: Reinventing Events; Mikhail Zoshchenko: Great Strides & Trivial Indiscretions; Zoshchenko & the Politics of Perceptibility; Nikolai Gogol: Distended Discourse & the Pragmatics of Elaboration; Gogol's Coats & Clutter: Content & Its Discontents; Conclusion: Too Little & Too Much - Story & Discourse & the Pragmatics of Insignificance.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Russian Literature, Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Nikolai Gogol, Narrative, Discourse Analysis, Narration, Fiction