| Description |
xii, 231 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345 ; no. 88
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography (p. [213]-218) and index. |
| Contents |
Novel perspective : "it's a short story" / John Barth -- I. Form and the short story -- How minimal is minimalism? / Ewing Campbell -- Social critique and story technique in the fiction of Raymond Carver / Hilary Siebert -- Picturing Ann Beattie / Susan Jaret McKinstry -- One and the many : Canadian short story cycles / Gerald Lynch -- Beginnings : "the origins and art of the short story" / Joyce Carol Oates -- II. History and place. They all laughed when I sat down to write : Chaucer, jokes, and the short story / Barry Sanders -- Southern women reconstruct the South : limit as aesthetic in the short story / Barbara C. Ewell -- Place of (and place in) the anglophone African short story / Roger Berger -- Generic variations on a colonial topos / Ian Reid -- Breaking down the boundaries : "earth, air, water, mind" / Leslie Marmon Silko -- III. Roles and genres. Poe's legacy : the short story writer as editor and critic / Ann Charters -- "Stories with real names" : narrative journalism and narrative history / Gay Talese -- Story in the narrative essay / Mary Swander -- Hemingway's "Indian camp" : story into film / H. R. Stoneback -- Unfilmable conclusion : Joyce Carol Oates and the movies / Brenda O. Daly -- Storying in hyperspace : "Linkages" / Robert Coover. |
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IV. Cognition and the short story. HyperStory : teaching short fiction with computers / Charles May -- Interdisciplinary thoughts on cognitive science and short fiction studies / Susan Lohafer -- Map of psychological approaches to story memory / Steven R. Yussen -- Short story structure and affect : evidence from cognitive psychology / William F. Brewer -- Story liking and moral resolution / Paul E. Jose -- Deixis in short fiction : the contribution of deictic shift theory to reader experience of literary fiction / Erwin M. Segal -- Telling it again : "stories into novels" / W. P. Kinsella -- V. Future of the short story. Way we write now : the reality of AIDS in contemporary short fiction / Sharon Oard Warner -- Future of the short story : a tentative approach / Claire Larriere -- Where do we go from here? : the future of the short story / Mary Rohrberger -- Speaking of writing : "Spies with music" / Barry Hannah. |
| Subject |
Short story.
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| Added Author |
Lounsberry, Barbara.
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| ISBN |
0313303967 (alk. paper) |
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