Research Catalog

Title

The art of brevity : excursions in short fiction theory and analysis / edited by Per Winther, Jakob Lothe, and Hans H. Skei.

Publication

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Winther, Per, 1947-
• Lothe, Jakob.
• Skei, Hans H., 1945-

Description

xx, 212 p., [6] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

Short story

Bibliography (note)

• 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 -- 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

Call Number

JFE 05-624

ISBN

1570035571 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004012286

OCLC

55502480

Title

The art of brevity : excursions in short fiction theory and analysis / edited by Per Winther, Jakob Lothe, and Hans H. Skei.

Imprint

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Winther, Per, 1947-

Lothe, Jakob.

Skei, Hans H., 1945-

Research Call Number

JFE 05-624