Refreshing, inclusive approaches to the theory and practice of
short fiction The Art of Brevity gathers fresh ideas about the
theory and writing of short fiction from around the globe to
produce an international, inclusive exploration of the steadily
growing field of short story studies. While Anglo-American scholars
have served as the primary developers of contemporary short story
theory since the field's inception in the 1960s, this volume adds
the contributions of scholars living in other parts of the world.
Such Anglo-American pioneers as Mary Rohrberger, Charles E. May,
Susan Lohafer, and John Gerlach join with short fiction scholars at
universities in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Canada to build
academic bridges and expand the field, geographically as well as
conceptually. Contributors weave together themes of time, space,
compression, mystery, reader response, and narrative closure. They
discuss writers as varied as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Herman Melville, Sarah Orne Jewett, James Joyce, Franz Kafka,
Ernest Hemingway, Mavis Gallant, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty,
Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and Robert Olen Butler. Among the
less familiar topics they investigate are the Australian tall tale,
the nineteenth-century queer story, and contemporary Danish "short
shorts."
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