In the following excerpt, originally published in 1885, Matthews makes distinctions between the formal qualities of the short story and those of the novel, highlighting the ingenuity, compression, and...
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In the following essay, Hanson argues that female short-story writers of the late nineteenth century reoriented the conventional narrative construction of the feminine.
The short stories of the 188...
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In the following essay, Koppelman documents the generally neglected tradition of short fiction written by American women in the nineteenth century.
My uncompleted research over the last 26 years ha...
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In the following essay, Taylor recounts the nineteenth-century shift in the French conte from the aesthetic compositions of Mérimée, Gautier, and Flaubert to the lucid simplicity of Maup...
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In the following essay, Engstrom defines the French short story (conte), and chronicles early works in this genre by Mérimée, Balzac, and Gautier.
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The first half of the 19th century...
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In the following excerpt, George focuses on the formal transformation of the French conte into the modern short story in the first half of the nineteenth century.
During some fifty years of anguish...
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In the following excerpt, Sachs considers the crystallization of the modern short story in French literature around 1830.
As a literary art form, the short story emerged even later among the Wester...
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In the following excerpt, Severino considers the short fictional writings of Machado de Assis and Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco, highlighting developments in the Brazilian short story from the late nin...
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In the following excerpt, Pattee explores the work of several notable American short-story writers of the late nineteenth century, including Brander Matthews, W. D. Howells, Frank R. Stockton, Henry C...
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In the following excerpt from the introduction to his collection of American short fiction, Fagin encapsulates the nineteenth-century development of the short story in the United States, detailing a v...
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In the following essay, Marler asserts that the development of American short fiction in the 1850s is evidenced by the decline of the “tale” and the ascent of the “short story,...
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In the following excerpt, Harris catalogues the prominent short story writers of the period 1830 to 1880, summarizing their representative works, and concludes with an overview of English and Irish Ae...
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In the following essay, Baldwin probes the economic and social factors that contributed to the slow development of the short story in nineteenth-century Britain.
One of the more curious anomalies o...
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In the following essay, Baldick examines several short British Gothic tales of the nineteenth century, focusing on the theme of family degeneration in these works.
My purpose in this article is to ...
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A Enjoyment of reading does not simply come from being challenged by the themes or arguments in a text. There are other elements in texts which may perhaps make reading enjoyable. For instance; plot...
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The Elements of a Short Story
There are five elements of a short story. Fictional and non fictional stories have the same basic elements. These basic elements are plot, characters, point of view, ...
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How to Write a Story makes it easy to develop confident, competent storywriters. There are lessons and reproducibles to help students learn the parts of a story, reproducible planning forms, and gu...
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Cynthia Ozick stood before a full house of literary fans, her white hair shining as she assessed an art form that could be likened to an old, but vital patriarch _ rich, historic and, the author fe...
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Gentle and enchanted, the 24 stories of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami’s latest collection, are frequently brief, unassuming and understated—but never fla...
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Gentle and enchanted, the 24 stories of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami’s latest collection, are frequently brief, unassuming and understated—but never fla...
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American critic, editor, novelist, and short-story writer (b. Aug. 1, 1941, Brooklyn,
N.Y.
—d. Feb. 23, 2006,
New York, N.Y.
), examined aspects of life from diverse points of view in works...
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A long-lost short story by Jay McInerney, stolen from the author’s apartment about twenty years ago and recently returned, will be published next week on the Web site FiveChapters.com. The st...
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Irish novelist and short-story writer (b. Nov. 12, 1934,
Dublin, Ire.
—d. March 30, 2006,
Dublin
), was noted for his depictions of Irish men and women constricted and damaged by the conven...
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