| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Origins: From Folktale to Art-Tale -- 2 Riddles, Hoaxes and Conundrums -- 3 Memory, Modernity and Orality -- 4 Poe, O. Henry and the Well-Made Story -- 5 Economies of Scale: The Short Story in England -- 6 Brought to Book: The Anthology and Its Uses -- 7 Between the Lines: Dissidence and the Short Story -- 8 Enclosed Readings: The Short Story and the Academ -- 9 Modernism and the Short Story -- 10 The Short Story Cycle -- 11 Character Parts: Identity in the Short Story -- 12 Localities: Centres and Margins -- 13 Tales of the City -- 14 Romance and the Fragmen -- 15 Ghost Stories and Other Hauntings -- 16 Popular Short Fictions -- 17 The Experimental Text -- 18 Postmodernism and the Short Story -- 19 Minimalism/Dirty Realism/Hyperrealism -- 20 Voyages Out: The Postcolonial Short Story -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This new general introduction emphasises the importance of the short story to an understanding of modern fiction. In twenty succinct chapters, the study paints a complete portrait of the short story - its history, culture, aesthetics and economics. European innovators such as Chekhov, Flaubert and Kafka are compared to Irish, New Zealand and British practitioners such as Joyce, Mansfield and Carter as well as writers in the American tradition, from Hawthorne and Poe to Barthelme and Carver |
| Analysis |
Short story |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-282) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Short story.
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Novelle.
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short stories.
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novels.
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FICTION -- Anthologies (multiple authors)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Mystery & Detective.
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Short story
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Kurzgeschichte
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Kurzgeschichte.
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Erzählung
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nouvelle (genre littéraire)
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Noveller.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Einführung
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[Manuels d'enseignement]
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780748632145 |
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074863214X |
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074862774X |
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9780748627745 |
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