The first edition of May's Short Story Theories (1976) opened with
an essay entitled "The Short Story: An Underrated Art." Almost two
decades later, the short story suffers no such slight. Publishers
and critics have become increasingly interested in the form, which
has enjoyed a renaissance led by such writers as Raymond Carver,
Tobias Wolff, Ann Beattie, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Mary Robison. An
important part of this revival of interest, Short Story Theories
has continued to attract a strong and loyal audience among students
and teachers. The New Short Story Theories includes a few basic
pieces from the earlier volume-Poe's Hawthorne review, Brander
Matthew's extension and formalization of Poe's theories, and essays
by Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bowen, and Nadine Gordimer-but most
of the essays are new to the collection. Addressing problems of
definition, historical considerations, issues of technique, and
cognitive approaches, essays include: "The Tale as Genre in Short
Story Fiction," by W. S. Penn "O. Henry and the Theory of the Short
Story," by Suzanne C. Ferguson "On Writing," by Raymond Carver
"From Tale to Short Story," by Robert F. Marler "A Cognitive
Approach to Storyness," by Susan Lohafer May's new collection will
continue to highlight the short story, to provoke debate, and to
enrich our experience of a demanding and rewarding literary form.
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