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Short Story - brief prose fiction. The term covers a wide variety of narratives—from stories in which the main focus is on the course of events to studies of character, from the "short short" story to extended and complex narratives such as Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. Most often the short story is restricted in character and situation and is concerned with creating a

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A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English » Read Now
by Erin Fallon, R. C. Feddersen, James Kurtzleben, Maurice A. Lee, Susan Rochette-Crawley. 432 pgs.

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Though many outstanding novels have been written in the last century, most of these novelists have also been short story writers. This reference is a guide to contemporary English-language short story writers and their works. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 50 writers from...
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Though many outstanding novels have been written in the last century, most of these novelists have also been short story writers. This reference is a guide to contemporary English-language short story writers and their works. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 50 writers from around the world, most of whom have been active since 1960. More than half the American writers belong to historically marginalized groups, such as Jewish-Americans, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans, and the volume includes entries for slightly more women than men. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides biographical material, a review of criticism, an extended analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography.
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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story » Read Now
by Blanche H. Gelfant, Lawrence Graver. 880 pgs.

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Writers on Writing: The Art of the Short Story » Read Now
by Maurice A. Lee. 248 pgs.

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The Tales We Tell: Perspectives on the Short Story » Read Now
by Barbara Lounsberry, Susan Lohafer, Mary Rohrberger, Stephen Pett, R. C. Feddersen. 236 pgs.

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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...
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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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Toward the End: Closure and Structure in the American Short Story » Read Now
by John Gerlach. 194 pgs.

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...Closure and Structure in the American Short Story THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS...24 The Shape of the Short Story 24 Neal, "Otter-Bag...the importance of the ending to a...
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The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story » Read Now
by Frank O'Connor. 226 pgs.

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...Lonely Voice A STUDY OF THE SHORT STORY THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY...a rigorous technique. But the short story, like the novel, is a modern art...we recognize the merits...
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Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story » Read Now
by Farhat Iftekharrudin, Joseph Boyden, Joseph Longo, Mary Rohrberger. 156 pgs.

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The Postmodern Short Story: Forms and Issues » Read Now
by Farhat Iftekharrudin, Joseph Boyden, Mary Rohrberger, Jaie Claudet. 282 pgs.

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Studies in Change: A Book of the Short Story » Read Now
by Hugh Kenner. 352 pgs.

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...STUDIES IN CHANGE A Book of the Short Story PRENTICE-HALL INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE...STUDIES IN CHANGE A Book of the Short Story PRENTICE-HALL, INC. ENGLEWOOD...the...
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Thematic Guide to Popular Short Stories » Read Now
by Patrick A. Smith. 320 pgs.

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Tellers of Tales: 100 Short Stories from the United States, England, France, Russia and Germany » Read Now
by W. Somerset Maugham . 1572 pgs.

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...The Development of the American Short Story , is invaluable to the student...ambitious aim of showing how the short story had developed since the beginning...tell tales...
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Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story: An Introduction to a Literature in Search of Critics » Read Now
by F. Odun Balogun. 202 pgs.

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This pioneering study of the African short story offers a two-part approach to a literary form that has long been neglected by scholars on the continent. Balogun first offers a general survey method and approach for close textual analysis, followed by discussions of two representative writers. The...
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This pioneering study of the African short story offers a two-part approach to a literary form that has long been neglected by scholars on the continent. Balogun first offers a general survey method and approach for close textual analysis, followed by discussions of two representative writers. The work of Achebe, a traditional realist, and Taban lo Liyong, a post-modernist experimentalist, is examined for general themes and structures. Detailed examinations of Achebe's Girls at War and lo Liyong's Fixions and The Uniformed Man are also included.
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Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe » Read Now
by Charles H. Rowell. 640 pgs.

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The 70 uncut stories in this collection comprise 36 writers from the United States and 34 from Europe and the Americas. It is an anthology which exemplifies the diversity of writers from the African diaspora.
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Everlasting Voices: Aspects of the Modern Irish Short Story » Read Now
by Richard J. Thompson. 114 pgs.

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...Aspects of the Modern Irish Short Story by Richard J. Thompson The...of the twentieth-century Irish short story by George Moore and James Joyce...this is not a history of...
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Reading the Modern Chinese Short Story » Read Now
by Marston Anderson, Cyril Birch, Yi-Tsi Mei Feuerwerker, Robert E. Hegel, Leo Ou-Fan Lee, Theodore Huters. 224 pgs.

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...READING THE MODERN CHINESE SHORT STORY Studies on Modern China...READING THE MODERN CHINESE SHORT STORY Theodore Huters, editor Studies...READING THE MODERN CHINESE SHORT...
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Lavender Mansions: 40 Contemporary Lesbian and Gay Short Stories » Read Now
by Irene Zahava. 456 pgs.

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...Gays writings, American. 5. Short stories, American. I. Zahava...Reprinted by permission. This story appears in a slightly different...permission. A later version of this...