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1 online resource (xxii, 247 pages) |
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Contributions to the study of world literature ; no. 128 |
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Contributions to the study of world literature ; no. 128.
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Short story and poetry / Amiri Baraka -- The joys of the brief encounter / Alecia McKenzie -- Let me tell you a story / András Nagy -- Carving the fruit stones / Katherine Vaz -- The short story and me / Velma Pollard -- Writing home / Minoli Salgado -- A short history of a short story: a writer's beginnings / Merrill Joan Gerber -- Guided tours of time and death / Jayne Anne Phillips -- The story as Su-Su, the writer as gossip / Olive Senior -- Wholeness and the short story / Billie Travalini -- Not taking the bait: a brief for uselessness in short fiction / Lucy Ferriss -- Making the invisible visible / Marion Bloem -- My sister, the short story / Karen King-Aribisala -- Giacometti's foot and Proust's Madeleine: the short story of desire / Janette Turner Hospital -- Writing tough, staying honest: challenges for a writer in Singapore / Kirpal Singh -- Apartheid in literary criticism / Alfred Birney -- The long and the short of the story / Vincente Soto -- Telling stories about falling men / Ivan Wolfers -- "Not about me": autobiography and the short story / Janet Kieffer -- What comes next: women writing women in short contemporary fiction / Kelly Cherry -- Tell me a story / Donald Anderson -- A story / Vijay Lakshmi Chauhan -- The short story as process: not what it means / Cyril Dabydeen -- Deaths / Frederich Busch -- Telling stories in my head / Chris Offutt -- Glory be / Susan Rochette-Crawley -- A short story / Richard Ford -- Harvesting Blackberries, Blackberries: a black woman's publishing tale / Crystal E. Wilkinson -- FETCH! "Solid objects," A dog of flanders, and the short story / Charlotte Zoë Walker -- Mercury blobs / Sylvia Petter -- The short story: a surviving species / Aleksandar Hemon -- Migration and statis in the art of short fiction (or, some words as experiment) / Diane Glancy -- The justice-dealing machine / Clark Blaise |
| Summary |
Short stories have enjoyed a long and popular history, with many famous writers attempting the craft at some point or another. Here, Lee assembles a variety of writers who comment on the form itself and its many meanings and manifestations. Concentrating on the features and challenges of the short story, contributors from Amiri Baraka to Richard Ford and Jayne Anne Phillips to Janette Turner Hospital discuss their own writing, the writing of others, the short story form, gender, politics, and other issues concerning the writing of short fiction. Readers will come away with a fuller understandi |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Short story -- Authorship
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Authors -- 20th century -- Biography
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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Authors
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Short story -- Authorship
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lee, Maurice Angus, 1938-
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| ISBN |
9780313068898 |
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0313068895 |
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9786612418198 |
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6612418192 |
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