Re-reading the short story
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Re-reading the short story
Macmillan, 1989
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The short story is still relatively neglected by critics, despite the fact that it is a form peculiarly open to new critical discourses. In this collection of essays, the contributors bring critical approaches to bear on the short story form. The first group of essays is primarily theoretical in orientation, dealing with such issues as gender and marginality in short fiction; the second group offers readings of the work of short story writers such as Alice Munro and John McGahern, always maintaining close links between theory and practice as the contributors try to define the meaning and status of this form. Clare Hanson's previous publications include "Katherine Mansfield" (with Andrew Gurr), "Short Stories and Short Fictions, 1880-1980" and "The Critical Writings of Katherine Mansfield".
Table of Contents
- Text and affect - a model of story understanding, D.Miall
- "things out of words" - towards a poetics of short fiction, C.Hanson
- too short for a book?, N.W.Jouve
- time and the short story, J.Pickering
- gender and genre, M.Eagleton
- Johnny Panic and the pleasures of disruption, R.Hampson
- high ground, N.Bradbury
- Hemingway and Fitzgerald - two short stories, L.Kelly
- genre reversals in Doris Lessing - stories like novels and novels like stories, C.Sprague
- crystals, fragments and golden wholes - short stories in "The Golden Notebook", E.C.Rose.
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