The art of brevity : excursions in short fiction theory and analysis / edited by Per Winther, Jakob Lothe, and Hans H. Skei.
| Other author | Winther, Per, 1947- |
| Other author | Lothe, Jakob. |
| Other author | Skei, Hans H., 1945- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, ©2004. |
| Description | xx, 212 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Origins, development, substance, and design of the short story: how I got hooked on the short story and where it led me / Mary Rohrberger -- Why short stories are essential and why they are seldom read / Charles E. May -- Writing short stories: my double story, with reflections on occasion, tonality, and direction / Andrew K. Kennedy -- Real-world characters in fictional story worlds: Robert Olen Butler's 'JFK secretly attends Jackie auction' / Susan Lohafer -- Narrative, lyric, and plot in Chris Offutt's Out of the woods / John Gerlach -- Closure and preclosure as narrative grid in short story analysis: some methodological suggestions / Per Winther -- The illustrated short story: toward a typology / Stuart Sillars -- Danish short shorts in the 1990s and the Jena-romantic fragments / Gitte Mose -- Aspects of the fragment in Joyce's Dubliners and Kafka's The trial / Jakob Lothe -- Short notes on tall tales: some Australian examples / W. H. New -- When foreignness and familiarity become one: defamiliarization in some Canadian short stories / Gerd Bjørhovde -- Making the familiar strange: representing the house in Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The landscape chamber' and Linda Hogan's 'Friends and fortunes' / Laura Castor -- Architecture in short stories by Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty / Jan Nordby Gretlund -- A life remembered: store porch tales from Yoknapatawpha county / Hans H. Skei -- Faulkner, Welty, and the short story composite / Sandra Lee Kleppe -- The queer short story / Axel Nissen -- Melville's stories as novel alternative / Hans B. Löfgren |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2004012286 |
| ISBN | 1570035571 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN3373 .A67 2004 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |