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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781201203321

Titolo

Writers on writing [[electronic resource] ] : the art of the short story / / edited by Maurice A. Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2005

ISBN

1-282-41819-X

9786612418198

0-313-06889-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

Contributions to the study of world literature ; ; no. 128

Altri autori (Persone)

LeeMaurice Angus <1938->

Disciplina

808.3/1

Soggetti

Short story - Authorship

Authors - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Part 1: The Short Story: Definition; Part 2: Relationship of Writer to Short Story; Part 3: Storytelling: The Short Story and Pedagogy; Part 4: Culture and the Short-Story Form; Part 5: The Short Story and Politics; Part 6: The Role of Gender in Short-Story Writing; Part 7: The Short Story: Process of Discovery; Part 8: The Short Story: Why We Write; Part 9: The Short Story: Form; Part 10: The Art of the Short Story; About the Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 story, contributors from Amiri Baraka to Richard Ford and Jayne Anne Phillips to Janette Turner Hospital discuss their own writing, the writing of others, the short story form, gender, politics, and other issues concerning the writing of short fiction. Readers will come away with a fuller understandi