Brevity : a flash fiction handbook /

"Over the past ten years or so, "Short-shorts" or "Flash Fiction" has emerged as an increasingly popular and visible genre within fiction. David Galef's Brevity offers a guide to the genre for creative writing students by combining discussions of the various approaches...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Galef, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Flash fiction > Authorship.
Flash fiction > Technique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Short introduction
  • Vignettes. Readings: Colette: Tthe other wife"; Isaac Babel: "An incident on the Nevsky Prospekt"
  • Character sketches. Readings: L.E. Leone: "The argument for a shotgun"; Josefina Estrada: "The extravagant behavior of the naked woman"
  • Letters. Readings: Yasunari Kawabata: "Canaries"; Phil Karasik: "Mickey the dog phones home"
  • Diary entries. Readings: Will Stanton: "Barney"; Mark Budman: "The diary of a salaryman"
  • Lists. Readings: Sei Shonagon: "Annoying things"; Steve Martin: "Disgruntled former lexicographer"
  • Fables. Readings: Anonymous: Untitled; Raphael Dagold: "The two rats and the BB gun"
  • Anecdotes. Reading: The peasant and the genie
  • Prose poems. Readings: Yusef Komunyakaa: "Nude interrogation"; Len Kuntz: "Story problems"
  • Soliloquies, rants, riffs, and themes. Readings: Christine Byl: "Hey, Jess McCafferty"; John Edgar Wideman: "Witness"
  • Perfect miniatures. Readings: John Collier: "The chaser"; Jeffrey Whitmore: "A bedtime story"
  • Intermission: cutting down. Bruce Taylor: "Exercise"
  • Surrealism. Readings: Richard Brautigan: "A need for gardens"; Donald Barthelme: "The baby"
  • What if? Readings: Wayland Hilton-Young: "The choice"; Dicky Murphy: "The magician's umbrella"
  • Genre. Readings: Roxane Gay: "The mistress of baby breath"; Tara Orchard: "My love"
  • Setting. Readings: Bharati Mukherjee: "Courtly vision"; Alice Walker: "The flowers"
  • Twists. Readings: Luisa Valenzuela: "Vision out of the corner of one eye"; Saki: "The open window"
  • Viewpoints. Readings: Robert Schipits: "Dialogue between two teenagers, one interested in cars and one not"; Ryan Ridge: "Shaky hands & all"
  • Mass compression. Readings: Bruce Holland Rogers: "Dinosaur"; Susan O'Neill: "Memento mori"
  • Metafiction. Readings: Ptim Callan: "Story"; Jorge Luis Borges: "Borges and I"
  • Vanishing point. Readings: Merilee Faber: "We came around the corner"; Dean Clayton Edwards: "It was pretending"; Davian Aw: "She raised the glass"; Augusto Monterroso: "The dinosaur"
  • The future
  • Conclusion.

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