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More Time - Contemporary Short Stories and Late Style (Hardcover)
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More Time studies the contemporary short story and focuses on four
recent collections: Alice Munro's Dear Life (2012); Andre Dubus's
Dancing After Hours (1996); Joy Williams's The Visiting Privilege
(2015); and Lydia Davis's Can't and Won't (2014). Each publication
has appeared near the conclusion of a career devoted all but
exclusively to short stories, with each defining a 'late style'
honed over a lifetime. As well, each diverges from others in ways
that have profoundly shaped our generic conceptions, and
collectively they represent the four most innovative practitioners
of the past half-century (with the arguable exception of Raymond
Carver). Yet in an era when writing programs, The New Yorker, and
distinguished journals all promulgate the short story, it remains
relatively under-examined as a major literary form. We continue to
argue about what a story inherently is, ignoring how differences
among practitioners enliven the field. Dubus, Munro, Williams, and
Davis each defy critical efforts to identify the story form's
presumed constitution, marked by a supposedly special shape or
requisite length or distinct narrative trajectory. And the very
contrast among their efforts reveals the expansiveness of the
genre, though few have taken such a cross-glancing interpretive
approach. This volume opens up discussion, shifting from close
analysis into larger speculation about possibilities established by
the most innovative writers in their later work.
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