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Reading for storyness : preclosure theory, empirical poetics, and culture in the short story
- Title
- Reading for storyness : preclosure theory, empirical poetics, and culture in the short story / Susan Lohafer.
- Author
- Lohafer, Susan.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2003.
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Details
- Description
- 191 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In Reading for Storyness, Susan Lohafer, former president of the Society for the Study of the Short Story, argues that there is much more than length separating short stories from novels and other works of fiction. With its close readings of stories by Kate Chopin, Julio Cortazar, Katherine Mansfield, and others, this book challenges assumptions about the short story and effectively redefines the genre in a fresh and original way."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- short stories.
- Short stories
- Short stories.
- Nouvelles.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-185) and index.
- Contents
- Once more into the forest of "young Goodman Brown" -- Preclosure basics in a Kate Chopin story -- Preclosing an "open" story by Julio Cortázar -- Preclosure and the history of the American short story -- Katherine Mansfield and Sandra Cisneros -- Loving (?) Raymond Carver -- Revisiting Ann Beattie -- The largeness of minimalism in Bobbie Ann Mason -- A short story and its nonfiction counterpart.
- ISBN
- 0801873983
- 9780801873980
- LCCN
- 2002156773
- OCLC
- ocm51336330
- 51336330
- SCSB-1317139
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library