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The Art of Brevity: Excursions in Short Fiction Theory and Analysis

The Art of Brevity: Excursions in Short Fiction Theory and Analysis

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ISBN10: 1611170451
ISBN13: 9781611170450
Publisher: Univ Of South Carolina Pr
Published: Aug 27 2011
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Art of Brevity offers an international, inclusive exploration of the steadily growing field of short story studies. Contributors 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. Among the less familiar topics they investigate are the Australian tall tale, the nineteenth-century queer story, and contemporary Danish short shorts.

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