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

by Winther, Per
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ISBN: 9781611170450
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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."
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Winther, Per
  • ISBN: 9781611170450
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.55
  • Number Of Pages: 212
  • Publication Year: 2011
Language: English

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