From Stage to Page: Drama, Reading, and Audience in Steven Millhauser

Authors

Pedro Ponce, Saint Lawrence UniversityFollow

Abstract

Reading is supposed to be an adventure: a doorway, a window, a magic portal through which the reader can experience vicariously the labors of Hercules, the sea journey of Ishmael, the epic quest of Frodo. We return to the world refreshed, edified, and most importantly, whole. Th e visions stoked by characters, vivid as they are, must ultimately be put away as we abandon the dream of fiction and resume our waking lives. Reading in the fiction of Steven Millhauser is similarly adventurous. But the narrative dream is never entirely dispelled.

Keywords

Humanities Symposium

Recommended Citation

Ponce, Pedro (2010) "From Stage to Page: Drama, Reading, and Audience in Steven Millhauser," Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal: Vol. 1, Article 9.
Available at: https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium_journal/vol1/iss1/9