The aim of this collection is to explore the most recent theoretical issues raised by the short story as a genre and to offer theoretical and practical perspectives on the form.

Author: Viorica Patea

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ISBN: 9789401208390

Category: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES

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Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective problematizes different aspects of the renewal and development of the short story. The aim of this collection is to explore the most recent theoretical issues raised by the short story as a genre and to offer theoretical and practical perspectives on the form. Centering as it does on specific authors and on the wider implications of short story poetics, this collection presents a new series of essays that both reinterpret canonical writers of the genre and advance new critical insights on the most recent trends and contemporary authors. Theorizations about genre reflect on different aspects of the short story from a multiplicity of perspectives and take the form of historical and aesthetic considerations, gender-centered accounts, and examinations that attend to reader-response theory, cognitive patterns, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, postcolonial studies, postmodern techniques, and contemporary uses of minimalist forms. Looking ahead, this collection traces the evolution of the short story from Chaucer through the Romantic writings of Poe to the postmodern developments and into the twenty-first century. This volume will prove of interest to scholars and graduate students working in the fields of the short story and of literature in general. In addition, the readability and analytical transparence of these essays make them accessible to a more general readership interested in fiction.

"This is all organized and thought-provoking collection of materials on what is no longer regarded as an 'underrated' form". -- Kliatt

Author: Charles Edward May

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ISBN: UOM:39015032577895

Category: Nouvelle

Page: 376

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"This is all organized and thought-provoking collection of materials on what is no longer regarded as an 'underrated' form". -- Kliatt

A collection of essays by twenty short-story writers and critics, ranging from Poe to Gordimer, offers theoretical analyses of and approaches to the short story, considered as a distinct and significant genre.

Author: Charles Edward May

Publisher: [Athens] : Ohio University Press

ISBN: UOM:39076006878586

Category: Short story

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A collection of essays by twenty short-story writers and critics, ranging from Poe to Gordimer, offers theoretical analyses of and approaches to the short story, considered as a distinct and significant genre.

The New Short Story Theories (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1994), pp. 147–64. Gourgouris, Stathis, Does Literature Think? Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003).

Author: Paul Delaney

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

ISBN: 9781474400664

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 388

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This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Lohafer, Susan. “A Cognitive Approach to Storyness.” The New Short Story Theories. Ed. Charles E. May. Athens: Ohio State UP, 1994. 301–311. → Lohafer, Susan, and Jo Ellyn Clarey, eds. Short Story Theory at a Crossroads.

Author: Erik Redling

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

ISBN: 9783110585322

Category: Literary Criticism

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The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.

Reprinted in The New Short Story Theories edited by Charles E. May, 73-80. Athens Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1994. —. “Introduction,” The Short-Story (1907) available on http://bartleby.com/195/101.html (accessed January 12th, 2008).

Author: Ailsa Cox

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

ISBN: 9781443807524

Category: Fiction

Page: 200

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Long regarded as an undervalued and marginalised genre, the short story is undergoing a renaissance. The Short Story celebrates its unique appeal. Practitioners and scholars address the issues facing short story criticism in the 21st century. Author A.L. Kennedy shares the pleasures and frustrations of writing the short story in the literary marketplace. This is followed by an assessment of recent attempts to promote short story readership in the UK. Other contributors look at forms such as the short-short and the short story sequence. The range of authors discussed includes Martin Amis, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie and James Joyce. The short story is the most international of genres; this is reflected in chapters on Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino and on Japanese short fiction. Postcolonial and translation theory are combined with the close reading of specific texts. Neglected authors, such as the Welsh writer Dorothy Edwards and the colonial figure Frank Swettenham, are re-evaluated and we also consider genre writing, with chapters on crime fiction and Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles. Integrating theory and practice, The Short Story will appeal both to writers and to students of literary criticism.

“What Ails the Short Story?” The New York Times 30 Sep. 2007. Web. 22 Aug. 2011. Lohafer, Susan. Coming to Terms with the Short Story. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1989. Print. ———. Reading for Storyness: Preclosure Theory, ...

Author: Jochen Achilles

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317812456

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 282

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This book is a study of the short story, one of the widest taught genres in English literature, from an innovative methodological perspective. Both liminality and the short story are well-researched phenomena, but the combination of both is not frequent. This book discusses the relevance of the concept of liminality for the short story genre and for short story cycles, emphasizing theoretical perspectives, methodological relevance and applicability. Liminality as a concept of demarcation and mediation between different processual stages, spatial complexes, and inner states is of obvious importance in an age of global mobility, digital networking, and interethnic transnationality. Over the last decade, many symposia, exhibitions, art, and publications have been produced which thematize liminality, covering a wide range of disciplines including literary, geographical, psychological and ethnicity studies. Liminal structuring is an essential aspect of the aesthetic composition of short stories and the cultural messages they convey. On account of its very brevity and episodic structure, the generic liminality of the short story privileges the depiction of transitional situations and fleeting moments of crisis or decision. It also addresses the moral transgressions, heterotopic orders, and forms of ambivalent self-reflection negotiated within the short story's confines. This innovative collection focuses on both the liminality of the short story and on liminality in the short story.

Rpt. in The New Short Story Theories. Ed. Charles E. May. Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 1994. 73–80. May, Charles E. Introduction. The New Short Story Theories. Ed. Charles E. May. Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 1994. xv–xxvi. ———.

Author: M. Bostrom

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9780230607484

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 224

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This book reveals a female sexual economy in the marketplace of contemporary short fiction which locates a struggle for sexual power between mothers and daughters within a larger struggle to pursue that object of the American dream: whiteness.

Her conceptually ambitious study from 1983 , Coming to Terms with the Short Story , as well as the aptly titled 1989 collection of essays , Short Story Theory at a Crossroads , brought further theoretical rigor to the field .

Author: Per Winther

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

ISBN: 1570035571

Category: Short story

Page: 246

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The Art of Brevity gathers fresh ideas about the theory and writing of short fiction from around the globe to produce an international, inclusive exploration of the steadily growing field of short story studies. Though Anglo-American scholars have served as the primary developers of contemporary short story theory since the field's inception in the 1960s, this volume adds the contributions of scholars living in other parts of the world. Such Anglo-American pioneers as Mary Rohrberger, Charles May, Susan Lohafer, and John Gerlach join with short fiction scholars at universities in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Canada to build academic bridges and expand the field, geographically as well as conceptually. Contributors to the volume weave together themes of time, space, compression, mystery, reader response, and narrative closure. They discuss writers as varied as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Sarah Orne Jewett, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Mavis Gallant, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and Robert Olen Butler. the nineteenth-century queer short story, and contemporary Danish short shorts.

Boddy, Kasia, The American Short Story Since 1950 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). Bowen, Elizabeth, 'Introduction', Faber Book of Modern Short Stories (reprinted in The New Short Story Theories). Charles May [ed.] ...

Author: Courttia Newland

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781474257299

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 304

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Writing Short Stories: A Writers' and Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing short fiction successfully. PART 1 explores the nature and history of the form, personal reflections by the editors, and help getting started with ideas, planning and research. PART 2 includes tips by leading short story writers, including: Alison Moore, Jane Rogers, Edith Pearlman, David Vann, Anthony Doerr, Vanessa Gebbie, Alexander MacLeod, Adam Thorpe and Elspeth Sandys. PART 3 contains practical advice - from shaping plots and exploring your characters to beating writers' block, rewriting and publishing your stories.