Reading for storyness : preclosure theory, empirical poetics, and culture in the short story

Reading for storyness preclosure theory, empirical poetics, and culture in the short story

The short story has been a staple of American literature since the nineteenth century, taught in virtually every high school and consistently popular among adult readers. But what makes a short story unique? In Reading for Storyness, Susan Lohafer, former president of the Society for the Study of th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse (-)
Otros Autores: Lohafer, Susan, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press 2003.
Materias:
Narration (Rhetoric)
Short story.
Literary theory
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429946706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Once more into the forest
  • 2. Preclosure basics in a Kate
  • 3. Preclosing an "open" story by Julio Cortázar
  • 4. Preclosure and the history of the American short story
  • 5. Katherine Mansfield and Sandra Cisneros
  • 6. Loving (?) Raymond Carver
  • 7. Revisiting Ann Beattie
  • 8. The largeness of minimalism in Bobbie Ann Mason
  • 9. A short story and its nonfiction counterpart.

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