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The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925 : Theory of a Genre /
"The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular--the late nineteenth and early twentieth ce...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Cambridge, UK :
Open Book Publishers,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. Structure
- Paroxystic characterisation
- Antithetic structure
- Ending with a twist
- The tools of brevity
- Conclusion to Part I
- Part II. Media
- Exoticism in the classic short story
- Short stories and the travelogue
- Part III. Reader, character and author
- A foreign world
- Dialogue and character discreditation
- The narrator, the reflector and the reader
- Distance and emotion
- Conclusion to Part III : Are Dostoevsky's short stories polyphonic?
- Epilogue : Beyond the classic short story.
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART I: STRUCTURE
- 1. Paroxystic Characterisation
- Extremes in the fantastic short story
- 2. Antithetic Structure
- Secondary tensions
- Editing antithetic tension: Maupassant and James
- 3. Ending with a Twist
- The “twist-in-the-tail� and antithetic tension
- The “Twist-in-the-tail� and retroreading
- “Open� texts and tension
- 4. The Tools of Brevity
- Preconstructed material
- Character types
- Recurring characters and empty characters
- Tight focus
- Permanence of types5. Conclusion to Part I
- Hypotyposis and schematisation
- Short stories, sensational news items and serials
- The short story: privileged object of narratology
- PART II: MEDIA
- 6. Exoticism in the Classic Short Story
- The role of the press
- Exotic subjects
- The constraints of the newspapers
- Exceptions to the rule
- 7. Short Stories and the Travelogue
- Praise of nature, criticism of culture
- From vision to judgement: guidelines for description
- PART III: READER, CHARACTER AND AUTHOR
- 8. A Foreign World
- An explicit distanceThe use of types: subversion or immersion?
- “Deceptive representations� of reality
- The great man
- “We are simply the case�: James and abstract entities
- Reading at face value: the double distance
- 9. Dialogue and Character Discreditation
- Direct and indirect speech: Verga�s novel versus short stories
- Dialect and distancing
- Foreign terms
- 10. The Narrator, the Reflector and the Reader
- Unreliable narrators and reflectors
- Reliable narrators and reflectors
- 11. Distance and Emotion
- The short story with a dilemmaReaders� emotional response to the classic short story
- 12. Conclusion to Part III: Are Dostoevsky�s Short Stories Polyphonic?
- Epilogue: Beyond the Classic Short Story
- Lengthy stories: the long Yvette after the brief Yveline
- Fantastic tales: the deconstruction of the self
- Authors at a crossroads
- Bibliography
- Index
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