| Description |
xx, 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 -- 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 Bjorhovde -- 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 -- Queer short story / Axel Nissen -- Melville's stories as novel alternative / Hans B. Lofgren. |
| Subject |
Short story.
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| Added Author |
Winther, Per, 1947-
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Lothe, Jakob.
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Skei, Hans H., 1945-
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| ISBN |
1570035571 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781570035579 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 264673506 |
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YDXCP 2138798 |
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NZ1 8495695 |
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