Although the short story has often been called America's unique
contribution to the world's literature, relatively few critics have
taken the form seriously. May's collection of essays by popular
commentators, academic critics, and short story writers attempts to
assess the reasons for this neglect and provides significant
theoretical directions for a reevaluation of the form. The essays
range from discussions by Poe to comments by John Cheever. Frank
O'Connor describes the short story as depicting \u201can intense
awareness of human loneliness,\u201d and Nadine Gordimer suggests
that the story is more suitable than the novel in rendering the
fragmentary modern experience. Eudora Welty sees the story as
something \u201cwrapped in an atmosphere\u201d of its own; Randall
Jarrell speaks of the mythic basis of the genre. Elizabeth Bowen
and Alberto Moravia discuss thematic and structural distinctions
between the novel and the story. The collection also includes
discussions of various types of stories, as satiric and lyric,
critical surveys of the development of the modern short story, and
the status of the form at the present time. An excellent annotated
bibliography is also included, which describes 135 books and
articles on the short story, evaluating their contribution to a
unified theory of the form.
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