The Art of Brevity: Excursions in Short Fiction Theory and AnalysisPer Winther, Jakob Lothe, Hans H. Skei Univ of South Carolina Press, 2004 - 212 oldal The Art of Brevity gathers fresh ideas about the theory and writing of short fiction from around the globe to produce an international, inclusive exploration of the steadily growing field of short story studies. Though Anglo-American scholars have served as the primary developers of contemporary short story theory since the field's inception in the 1960s, this volume adds the contributions of scholars living in other parts of the world. Such Anglo-American pioneers as Mary Rohrberger, Charles May, Susan Lohafer, and John Gerlach join with short fiction scholars at universities in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Canada to build academic bridges and expand the field, geographically as well as conceptually. Contributors to the volume weave together themes of time, space, compression, mystery, reader response, and narrative closure. They discuss writers as varied as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Sarah Orne Jewett, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Mavis Gallant, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and Robert Olen Butler. the nineteenth-century queer short story, and contemporary Danish short shorts. |
Tartalomjegyzék
Origins Development Substance and Design of the Short Story | 1 |
Why Short Stories Are Essential and Why They Are Seldom Read | 14 |
RealWorld Characters in Fictional Story Worlds | 32 |
Closure and Preclosure as Narrative Grid in Short Story Analysis | 57 |
The Illustrated Short Story | 70 |
Danish Short Shorts in the 1990s and the JenaRomantic Fragments | 81 |
Jakob Lothe | 96 |
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The Art of Brevity: Excursions in Short Fiction Theory and Analysis Per Winther,Jakob Lothe,Hans H. Skei Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2011 |
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