The Short Story: A Critical Introduction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780582486874)

Throughout this text, the Valerie Shaw addresses two key questions: 'What are the special satisfactions afforded by reading short stories?' and 'How are these satisfactions derived from each story's literary techniques and narrative strategies?'. She then attempts to answer these questions by drawing on stories from different periods and countries xxx; by authors who were also great novelists, like Henry James, Flaubert, Kafka and D.H. Lawrence; by authors who specifically dedicated themselves to the art of the short story, like Kipling, Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield; by contemporary practitioners like Angela Carter and Jorge Luis Borges; and by unfairly neglected writers like Sarah Orne Jewett and Joel Chandler Harris.

Author: Valerie Shaw
ISBN-10: 0582486874
ISBN-13: 9780582486874
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 09/26/1983
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d