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100 1 _aShaw, Valerie,‏
_d1941-‏
_eauthor.
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245 1 4 _aThe short story :
_ba critical introduction /
_cValerie Shaw.
250 _aFifth impression.
264 1 _aHarlow, England ;
_aNew York :
_bLongman Group UK Limited,
_c1992.
300 _aix, 294 pages ;
_c22 cm
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
_bn
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
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500 _a"A Pearson Education print on demand edition" on cover.
500 _aFirst published : 1983.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _a'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.'
520 _aAfter 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.
650 7 _aShort story
_xHistory and criticism.
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653 _cSeptember2016
_cJuly2016
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655 _vReading book
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