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The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925 - Theory of a Genre (Hardcover)
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The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925 - Theory of a Genre (Hardcover)
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The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character
in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen
as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time
when the short story was at its most popular-the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries-even the greatest writers followed
strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded
and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La
Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre a son apogee (Paris,
1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period
across different continents. Ranging through French, English,
Italian, Russian and Japanese writing-particularly the stories of
Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and
Akutagawa Ry nosuke-Goyet shows that these authors were able to
create brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple
'tools of brevity' of that period. In this challenging and
far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the
context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and
higher-end periodicals. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent
intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they
mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. In doing so, her
book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this
'forgotten' genre.
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