SOURCE: “‘The Grave’ as Lyrical Short Story,” in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall, 1964, pp. 216–21.
In the following essay, Joselyn maintains that a reading of Porter's “The Grave” “will serve to illustrate several of the main characteristics of the ‘lyric’ short story.”
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