| Description |
xiv, 251 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: A survey of short story criticism in America / Charles E. May -- The short story : an underrated art / Thomas A. Gullason -- Stories / Randall Jarrell -- Review of Twice-told tales / Edgar Allan Poe -- The philosophy of the short-story / Brander Matthews -- A theory of the short story / James Cooper Lawrence -- The modern short story : retrospect / H.E. Bates -- The short story : a proposed definition / Mary Rohrberger -- The lonely voice / Frank O'Connor -- Is the short story necessary? / Elizabeth Janeway, Shirley Hazzard, John Cheever, Harry Mark Petrakis -- The structure of the modern short story / A.L. Bader -- A critical approach to the short story / Theodore A. Stroud -- What makes a short story short? / Norman Friedman -- The short story and the novel / Alberto Moravia -- The Faber book of modern short stories / Elizabeth Bowen -- The reading and writing of short stories / Eudora Welty -- "The flash of fireflies" / Nadine Gordimer -- The satiric short story : a definition / Gregory Fitz Gerald -- What is an initiation story? / Mordecai Marcus -- The lyric short story : the sketch of a history / Eileen Baldeshwiler -- Notes on the American short story today / Richard Kostelanetz -- A selected, annotated bibliography of the short story |
| Summary |
A collection of essays by twenty short-story writers and critics, ranging from Poe to Gordimer, offers theoretical analyses of and approaches to the short story, considered as a distinct and significant genre |
| Analysis |
Short story |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [226]-251 |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Author |
May, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1941-
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| LC no. |
75036982 |
| ISBN |
0821401890 |
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0821402218 (paperback) |
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