Short Story Theories (Paperback, annotated edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Ohio University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1977
First published:	1977
Authors:	Charles E. May
Dimensions:	231 x 154 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	265
Edition:	annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8214-0221-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Promotions
LSN:	0-8214-0221-8
Barcode:	9780821402214

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