Re-reading the Short Story
This collection of essays maintaining links with theory and practice applies a critical approach to the short story form. Some are theoretical in orientation, covering such issues as gender and marginality, while others offer readings of works by writers such as Alice Munro and John McGahern.
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Re-reading the Short Story
This collection of essays maintaining links with theory and practice applies a critical approach to the short story form. Some are theoretical in orientation, covering such issues as gender and marginality, while others offer readings of works by writers such as Alice Munro and John McGahern.
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Re-reading the Short Story

Re-reading the Short Story

by Clare Hanson
Re-reading the Short Story

Re-reading the Short Story

by Clare Hanson

Paperback(1st ed. 1989)

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This collection of essays maintaining links with theory and practice applies a critical approach to the short story form. Some are theoretical in orientation, covering such issues as gender and marginality, while others offer readings of works by writers such as Alice Munro and John McGahern.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349103157
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/01/1989
Edition description: 1st ed. 1989
Pages: 137
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Text and affect - a model of story understanding, D.Miall; "things out of words" - towards a poetics of short fiction, C.Hanson; too short for a book?, N.W.Jouve; time and the short story, J.Pickering; gender and genre, M.Eagleton; Johnny Panic and the pleasures of disruption, R.Hampson; high ground, N.Bradbury; Hemingway and Fitzgerald - two short stories, L.Kelly; genre reversals in Doris Lessing - stories like novels and novels like stories, C.Sprague; crystals, fragments and golden wholes - short stories in "The Golden Notebook", E.C.Rose.
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