| Description |
xxvi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Some Aspects of the Short Story / Julio Cortazar -- The Faber Book of Modern Short Stories / Elizabeth Bowen -- The Flash of Fireflies / Nadine Gordimer -- The Hallucinatory Point / Maurice Shadbolt -- On Writing / Raymond Carver -- Story Comprehension: An Introduction / Teun A. Van Dijk -- A Cognitive Approach to Storyness / Susan Lohafer |
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Stories / Randall Jarrell -- Story as Exemplum - Exemplum as Story: On the Pragmatics and Poetics of Narrative Texts / Karl-Heinz Stierle -- The Tale as Genre in Short Fiction / W. S. Penn -- Poe on Short Fiction / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Philosophy of the Short-Story / Brander Matthews -- O. Henry and the Theory of the Short Story / B. M. Ejxenbaum -- The Short Story: The Long and the Short of It / Mary Louise Pratt -- On Defining Short Stories / Allan H. Pasco -- The Nature of Knowledge in Short Fiction / Charles E. May -- Notes on the Novella / Graham Good -- From Tale to Short Story: The Emergence of a New Genre in the 1850's / Robert F. Marler -- Vision and Form: The English Novel and the Emergence of the Short Story / Wendell V. Harris -- The Short Story / Anton Chekhov -- Chekhov and the Modern Short Story / Charles E. May -- Defining the Short Story: Impressionism and Form / Suzanne C. Ferguson -- The Lyric Short Story: The Sketch of a History / Eileen Baldeshwiler |
| Summary |
The first edition of May's Short Story Theories (1976) opened with an essay entitled, "The Short Story: An Underrated Art." Almost two decades later, the short story suffers no such slight. Publishers and critics have become increasingly interested in the form, which has enjoyed a renaissance led by such writers as Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, Ann Beattie, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Mary Robison. An important part of this revival of interest, Short Story Theories has continued to attract a strong and loyal audience among students and teachers. The New Short Story Theories includes a few basic pieces from the earlier volume - Poe's Hawthorne review, Brander Matthew's extension and formalization of Poe's theories, and essays by Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bowen, and Nadine Gordimer - but most of the essays are new to the collection |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [312]-337) |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Author |
May, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1941-
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| LC no. |
94007037 |
| ISBN |
0821410873 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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