Rick Feddersen

The Tales We Tell

Perspectives on the Short Story
Herausgeber: Lounsberry, Barbara; Rohrberger, Mary

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Produktbeschreibung

The 1990s have seen a renaissance in short fiction studies. Today's short story writers are testing the boundaries of short fiction through minimalist works; extended short story cycles; narrative nonfiction forms, such as histories, memoirs, and essays; and even stories created interactively with readers on the computer. Short story critics, in turn, are viewing the short story from the perspective of genre, history, cultural studies, and even cognitive science. This volume brings together the opinions, theories, and research of many of today's best-known short story writers, theorists, and critics. Contributors include some of the most widely read contemporary authors, such as Joyce Carol Oates, John Barth, Gay Talese, W. P. Kinsella, Robert Coover, Barry Hannah, and Leslie Marmon Silko. The authors and scholars who have contributed to the volume provide an entertaining and informative exploration of modern short fiction. The volume traces the origins of the short story back to Chaucer, the joke, and the instinct for play, and follows the development of the form through today's hyper-stories created interactively in cyberspace. Along the way, it presents essays on miminalism in short fiction, on the transformation of short stories into films, and even on AIDS and the short story. The broad scope of the volume includes a wide variety of critical approaches brought to bear on literature from around the world, including short stories from Africa, Australia, Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9780313303968
• ISBN-10: 0313303967
• Artikelnr.: 21094684

Autorenporträt

Rick Feddersen, Susan Lohafer, Barbara Lounsberry, Mary Rohrberger

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Susan Lohafer A Novel Perspective: "It's a Short Story" by
John Barth Form and the Short Story How Minimal Is Minimalism? by Ewing
Campbell Social Critique and Story Technique in the Fiction of Raymond
Carver by Hilary Siebert Picturing Ann Beattie by Susan Jaret McKinstry The
One and the Many: Canadian Short Story Cycles by Gerald Lynch History and
Place The Origins and Art of the Short Story by Joyce Carol Oates They All
Laughed When I Sat Down to Write: Chaucer, Jokes, and the Short Story by
Barry Sanders Southern Women Reconstruct the South: Limit as Aesthetic in
the Short Story by Barbra C. Ewell The Place of (and Place in) the
Anglophone African Short Story by Roger Berger Generic Variations on a
Colonial topos by Ian Reid Roles and Genres Breaking Down the Boundaries:
"A Conversation with Leslie Marmon Silko" Poe's Legacy: The Story Writer as
Editor and Critic by Ann Charters "Stories with Real Names": Narrative
Journalism and History by Gay Talese Story in the Narrative Essay by Mary
Swander Hemingway's "Indian Camp": Story into Film by H. R. Stoneback An
Unfilmable Conclusion: Joyce Carol Oates at the Movies by Brenda O. Daly
Cognition and the Short Story Storying in Hyperspace: "Linkages" by Robert
Coover HyperStory: Teaching Short Fiction with Computers by Charles May
Interdisciplinary Thoughts on Cognitive Science by Susan Lohafer A Map of
Psychological Approaches to Story Memory by Steven R. Yussen Short Story
Structure and Affect: Evidence from Cognitive Psychology by William F.
Brewer "Story Liking" and Moral Resolution by Paul E. Jose Deixis in Short
Fiction: The Contribution of Deictic Shift Theory to Reader Experience of
Literary Fiction by Erwin M. Segal The Future of the Short Story Telling It
Again: "Ruminating with W. P. Kinsella" The Way We Write Now: The Reality
of AIDS in Contemporary Short Fiction by Sharon Oard Warner The Future of
the Short Story: A Tentative Approach by Claire Larriere Where Do We
Go From Here?: The Future of the Short Story by Mary Rohrberger Speaking of
Writing: "Spies With Music" by Barry Hannah Bibliography Contributors Index