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Writers on writing : the art of the short story /

Short stories have enjoyed a long and popular history, with many famous writers attempting the craft at some point or another. Here, Lee assembles a variety of writers who comment on the form itself and its many meanings and manifestations. Concentrating on the features and challenges of the short s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lee, Maurice Angus, 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005.
Colección:Contributions to the study of world literature ; no. 128.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Short story and poetry / Amiri Baraka
  • The joys of the brief encounter / Alecia McKenzie
  • Let me tell you a story / András Nagy
  • Carving the fruit stones / Katherine Vaz
  • The short story and me / Velma Pollard
  • Writing home / Minoli Salgado
  • A short history of a short story: a writer's beginnings / Merrill Joan Gerber
  • Guided tours of time and death / Jayne Anne Phillips
  • The story as Su-Su, the writer as gossip / Olive Senior
  • Wholeness and the short story / Billie Travalini
  • Not taking the bait: a brief for uselessness in short fiction / Lucy Ferriss
  • Making the invisible visible / Marion Bloem
  • My sister, the short story / Karen King-Aribisala
  • Giacometti's foot and Proust's Madeleine: the short story of desire / Janette Turner Hospital
  • Writing tough, staying honest: challenges for a writer in Singapore / Kirpal Singh
  • Apartheid in literary criticism / Alfred Birney
  • The long and the short of the story / Vincente Soto
  • Telling stories about falling men / Ivan Wolfers
  • "Not about me": autobiography and the short story / Janet Kieffer
  • What comes next: women writing women in short contemporary fiction / Kelly Cherry
  • Tell me a story / Donald Anderson
  • A story / Vijay Lakshmi Chauhan
  • The short story as process: not what it means / Cyril Dabydeen
  • Deaths / Frederich Busch
  • Telling stories in my head / Chris Offutt
  • Glory be / Susan Rochette-Crawley
  • A short story / Richard Ford
  • Harvesting Blackberries, Blackberries: a black woman's publishing tale / Crystal E. Wilkinson
  • FETCH! "Solid objects," A dog of flanders, and the short story / Charlotte Zoë Walker
  • Mercury blobs / Sylvia Petter
  • The short story: a surviving species / Aleksandar Hemon
  • Migration and statis in the art of short fiction (or, some words as experiment) / Diane Glancy
  • The justice-dealing machine / Clark Blaise.