The New Short Story Theories | |||||||||
|
Product Description
The first edition of May’s Short Story Theories (1976) opened with an essay entitled “The Short Story: An Underrated Art.” Almost two decades later, the short story suffers no such slight. Publishers and critics have become increasingly interested in the form, which has enjoyed a renaissance led by such writers as Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, Ann Beattie, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Mary Robison. An important part of this revival of interest, Short Story Theories has continued to attract a strong and loyal audience among students and teachers.
The New Short Story Theories includes a few basic pieces from the earlier volume—Poe’s Hawthorne review, Brander Matthew’s extension and formalization of Poe’s theories, and essays by Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bowen, and Nadine Gordimer—but most of the essays are new to the collection.
Addressing problems of definition, historical considerations, issues of technique, and cognitive approaches, essays include:
“The Tale as Genre in Short Story Fiction,” by W. S. Penn
“O. Henry and the Theory of the Short Story,” by Suzanne C. Ferguson
“On Writing,” by Raymond Carver
“From Tale to Short Story,” by Robert F. Marler
“A Cognitive Approach to Storyness,” by Susan Lohafer
May’s new collection will continue to highlight the short story, to provoke debate, and to enrich our experience of a demanding and rewarding literary form.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Tales of Henry James (Norton Critical Editions)
- The Best of Roald Dahl
- Short Story Theory at a Crossroads
- Katherine Mansfield's Selected Stories (Norton Critical Edition)
- Long Lankin (Vintage International)
- Mothers and Sons: Stories
- Best European Fiction 2018
- The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories
- The Best American Short Stories 2019 (The Best American Series ®)
- Anton Chekhov's Selected Stories (First Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
*If this is not the "The New Short Story Theories" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link. Details were last updated on Jul 30, 2024 22:39 +08.