The tales we tell : perspectives on the short story / edited by Barbara Lounsberry [and others] ; under the auspices of the Society for the Study of the Short Story.

Other author Lounsberry, Barbara.
Format Book
Publication InfoWestport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.
Descriptionxii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesContributions to the study of world literature ; no. 88
Contributions to the study of world literature ; no. 88. ^A494671
Contents A novel perspective : "It's a short story" / by John Barth. I. Form and the short story. How minimal is minimalism? / by Ewing Campbell -- Social critique and story technique in the fiction of Raymond Carver / by Hilary Siebert -- Picturing Ann Beattie / by Susan Jaret McKinstry -- The one and the many : Canadian short story cycles / by Gerald Lynch -- Beginnings : "The origins and art of the short story" / by Joyce Carol Oates. II. History and place. They all laughed when I sat down to write : Chaucer, jokes, and the short story / by Barry Sanders -- Southern women reconstruct the South : limit as aesthetic in the short story / by Barbara C. Ewell -- The place of (and place in) the anglophone African short story / by Roger Berger -- Generic variations on a colonial topos / by Ian Reid -- Breaking down the boundaries : "Earth, air, water, mind" / by Leslie Marmon Silko. III. Roles and genres. Poe's legacy : the short story writer as editor and critic / by Ann Charters -- "Stories with real names" : narrative journalism and narrative histories / by Gay Talese -- Story in the narrative essay / by Mary Swander -- Hemingway's "Indian camp" : story into film / by H.R. Stoneback -- An unfilmable conclusion : Joyce Carol Oates and the movies / by Brenda O. Daly -- Storying in hyperspace : "Linkages" / by Robert Coover.
Contents IV. Cognition and the short story. HyperStory : teaching short fiction with computers / by Charles May -- Interdisciplinary thoughts on cognitive science and short fiction studies / by Susan Lohafer -- A map of psychological approaches to story memory / by Steven R. Yussen -- Short story structure and affect : evidence from cognitive psychology / by William F. Brewer -- Story liking and moral resolution / by Paul E. Jose -- Deixis in short fiction : the contribution of deictic shift theory to reader experience of literary fiction / by Erwin M. Segal -- Telling it again : "Stories into novels" / by W.P. Kinsella. V. The future of the short story. The way we write now : the reality of AIDS in contemporary short fiction / by Sharon Oard Warner -- The future of the short story : a tentative approach / by Claire Larriere -- Where do we go from here? / the future of the short story / by Mary Rohrberger -- Speaking of writing : "Spies with music" by Barry Hannah.
Local noteLittle-314768--305131024538Z
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [213]-218) and index.
LCCN 97013712
ISBN0313303967 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN3373 .T44 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold