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The Tales We Tell: Perspectives on the Short Story
By Barbara Lounsberry, Susan Lohafer, Mary Rohrberger, Stephen Pett, R. C. Feddersen
252 pages
- Contributors:
- Includes content by:
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John Barth
Ewing Campbell
Hilary Siebert
Susan Jaret McKinstry
Gerald Lynch
Joyce Carol Oates
Barry Sanders
Barbara C. Ewell
Roger Berger
Ian Reid
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Ewing Campbell
Hilary Siebert
Susan Jaret McKinstry
Gerald Lynch
Joyce Carol Oates
Barry Sanders
Barbara C. Ewell
Roger Berger
Ian Reid
Leslie Marmon Silko
Ann Charters
Gay Talese
Mary Swander
H. R. Stoneback
Brenda O. Daly
Robert Coover
Charles May
Susan Lohafer
Steven R. Yussen
William F. Brewer
Paul E. Jose
Erwin M. Segal
W. P. Kinsella
Sharon Oard Warner
Claire Larriere
Mary Rohrberger
Barry Hannah
- Publisher:
- Greenwood Press
- Place of publication:
- Westport, CT
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Subjects:
Synopsis
The 1990s have seen a renaissance in short fiction studies. This book brings together the opinions, theories, and research of many of today's best-known short story writers, theorists, and critics. It includes essays by leading authors, such as Joyce Carol Oates, John Barth, Robert Coover, Leslie Marmon Silko, Barry Hannah, Gay Talese, and W. P. Kinsella, who reflect on the writing process. The volume traces the origins of the short story back to Chaucer and follows the development of the form through ...
The 1990s have seen a renaissance in short fiction studies. This book brings together the opinions, theories, and research of many of today's best-known short story writers, theorists, and critics. It includes essays by leading authors, such as Joyce Carol Oates, John Barth, Robert Coover, Leslie Marmon Silko, Barry Hannah, Gay Talese, and W. P. Kinsella, who reflect on the writing process. The volume traces the origins of the short story back to Chaucer and follows the development of the form through today's "hyper-stories" created interactively in cyberspace. The broad scope of the book covers short stories from around the world, including those from Africa, Australia, Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.
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Table of contents
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- Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of World Literature ii
- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Introduction ix
- A Novel Perspective: "It's a Short Story" 1
- Part I - Form and the Short Story 13
- 1 - How Minimal Is Minimalism? 15
- 2 - Social Critique and Story Technique in the Fiction of Raymond Carver 21
- 3 - Picturing Ann Beattie 29
- 4 - The One and the Many: Canadian Short Story Cycles 35
- Beginnings: "The Origins and Art of the Short Story" 47
- Part II - History and Place 53
- 5 - They All Laughed When I Sat Down to Write: Chaucer, Jokes, and the Short Story 55
- 6 - Southern Women Reconstruct the South: Limit as Aesthetic in the Short Story 63
- 7 - The Place of (and Place in) the Anglophone African Short Stor 73
- NOTES 79
- Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of World Literature ii
- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Introduction ix
- A Novel Perspective: "It's a Short Story" 1
- Part I - Form and the Short Story 13
- 1 - How Minimal Is Minimalism? 15
- 2 - Social Critique and Story Technique in the Fiction of Raymond Carver 21
- 3 - Picturing Ann Beattie 29
- 4 - The One and the Many: Canadian Short Story Cycles 35
- Beginnings: "The Origins and Art of the Short Story" 47
- Part II - History and Place 53
- 5 - They All Laughed When I Sat Down to Write: Chaucer, Jokes, and the Short Story 55
- 6 - Southern Women Reconstruct the South: Limit as Aesthetic in the Short Story 63
- 7 - The Place of (and Place in) the Anglophone African Short Stor 73
- NOTES 79
- 8 - Generic Variations on a Colonial Topos 83
- Breaking Down the Boundaries: "Earth, Air, Water, Mind" 91
- Part III - Roles and Genres 95
- 9 - Poe's Legacy: The Short Story Writer as Editor and Critic 97
- 10 - Stories with Real Names": Narrative Journalism and Narrative History" 99
- 11 - Story in the Narrative Essay 103
- 12 - Hemingway's Indian Camp": Story into Film" 107
- 13 - An Unfilmable Conclusion: Joyce Carol Oates at the Movies 121
- Storying in Hyperspace: "Linkages" 133
- Part IV - Cognition and the Short Story 139
- 14 - HyperStory: Teaching Short Fiction with Computers 141
- 15 - Interdisciplinary Thoughts on Cognitive Science and Short Fiction Studies 147
- 16 - A Map of Psychological Approaches to Story Memory 151
- 17 - Short Story Structure and Affect: Evidence from Cognitive Psychology 157
- 18 - Story Liking and Moral Resolution 165
- 19 - Deixis in Short Fiction: The Contribution of Deictic Shift Theory to Reader Experience of Literary Fiction 169
- Telling It Again: "Stories into Novels" 177
- Part V - The Future of the Short Story 183
- 20 - The Way We Write Now: The Reality of Aids in Contemporary Short Fiction 185
- 21 - The Future of the Short Story: A Tentative Approach 195
- 22 - Where Do We Go from Here? The Future of the Short Story 201
- Speaking of Writing: "Spies with Music" 207
- Selected Bibliography 213
- Index 219
- About the Contributors 225