From short story precursors, such as Aesop's fables and fairy tales, to ZZ Packer's twenty-first-century tales of ambiguity and alienation, these stories will guide readers toward [an] understanding of the genre. -Back cover.
Author: Wendy Martin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Division
ISBN: PSU:000058730010
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 1670
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This volume presents a collection of original and interconnected essays which aim to chart Elizabeth Gaskell's literary imagination by focusing on diverse aspects of her short stories.
Author: Francesco Marroni
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 3034306784
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 223
View: 708
The Art & Craft of the Short Story explores every key element of short fiction, including story structure and form; creative and believable characters; how to begin and where to end; and the generation of ideas; as well as technical aspects ...
Author: Rick DeMarinis
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 9781504036856
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 244
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Author: George W. Gerwig
Publisher: BiblioBazaar, LLC
ISBN: 0559626363
Category: History
Page: 128
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A wide-ranging collection of short stories celebrates the postwar masters of the form, including Russell Banks, T. C. Boyle, Amos Oz, Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, Ann Beatie, Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Ben Okri, Angela Cater, and ...
Author: Daniel Halpern
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN: 9780140296389
Category: Fiction
Page: 667
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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.
Author: Per Winther
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1570035571
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 212
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