02430cam a22003495a 4500 22070 22042 010700990 EG-ScBUE 20200203123649.0 840305r19921983enk f b 001 0 eng d 0582486874 9780582486874 Uk eng rda Uk EG-ScBUE 808.31 SHA 22 Shaw, Valerie,‏ 1941-‏ author. 40537 The short story : a critical introduction / Valerie Shaw. Fifth impression. Harlow, England ; New York : Longman Group UK Limited, 1992. ix, 294 pages ; 22 cm rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc "A Pearson Education print on demand edition" on cover. First published : 1983. Includes bibliographical references and index. 'Only short stories' : estimates and explanations -- 'A wide margin for the wonderful' : Robert Louis Stevenson -- 'Artful' narration : from the sensation story to the scenic method -- 'Artless' narration -- 'Glanced at through a window' : characterization -- Places and communities -- Subject-matter -- 'The splintering frame.' After years of critical neglect the short story is at last coming into its own as an important and distinctive literary form. In this stimulating introduction, Valerie Shaw asserts the claims of the short story as an art form in its own right. She addresses herself throughout to two key question: "What are the special satisfactions afforded by reading short stories?" and "How are these satisfactions derived from each story's literary techniques and narrative strategies?" To answer them she draws on stories from different periods and countries -- by authors who were also great novelists, like Henry James, Flaubert, Kafka, and D. H. Lawrence; by authors who specifically dedicated themselves to the art of the short story, like Kipling, Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield; by contemporary practitioners like Angela Carter and Jorge Luis Borges; and by unfairly neglected writers like Sarah Orne Jewett and Joel Chandler Harris. -- From publisher's description. Short story History and criticism. BUEsh 30646 BUEsh September2016 July2016 HHUUEENN Reading book ddc 22 808.31 SHA BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2016-07-31 Purchase 511.00 25868 2 2 808.31 SHA 000032942 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2019-11-02 639.00 2016-07-31 BB 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2016-09-25 Purchase 596.00 26103 2 1 808.31 SHA 000033482 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2020-02-12 746.00 2016-09-25 BB