The Short Story: A Critical Introduction - Brossura

Shaw, Valerie

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ISBN 10: 0582486874 ISBN 13: 9780582486874

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1983

Riassunto

Throughout this text, Valerie Shaw addresses two key questions: 'What are the special satisfactions afforded by reading short stories?' and 'How are these satisfactions derived from each story's literary techniques and narrative strategies?'. She then attempts to answer these questions by drawing on stories from different periods and countries - by authors who were also great novelists, like Henry James, Flaubert, Kafka and D.H. Lawrence; by authors who specifically dedicated themselves to the art of the short story, like Kipling, Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield; by contemporary practitioners like Angela Carter and Jorge Luis Borges; and by unfairly neglected writers like Sarah Orne Jewett and Joel Chandler Harris.

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Recensione:

 "xxx; continuously interesting and readable."  Times Higher Education Supplement

Contenuti:

Preface  Acknowledgements  1. 'Only short stories': estimates and explanations  2. 'A wide margin for the wonderful': Robert Louis Stevenson  3. 'Artful' narration: from the sensation story to the scenic method  4. 'Artless' narration  5. 'Glanced at through a window': characterization  6. Places and communities  7. Subject-matter  8. 'The Splintering frame'  Bibliography  Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0582486874
• ISBN 13: 9780582486874
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 304