The Art of Brevity gathers fresh ideas about the theory and writing of short fiction from around the globe to produce an international, inclusive exploration of the steadily growing field of short story studies. Though Anglo-American scholars have served as the primary developers of contemporary short story theory since the field's inception in the 1960s, this volume adds the contributions of scholars living in other parts of the world. Such Anglo-American pioneers as Mary Rohrberger, Charles May, Susan Lohafer, and John Gerlach join with short fiction scholars at universities in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Canada to build academic bridges and expand the field, geographically as well as conceptually. Contributors to the volume weave together themes of time, space, compression, mystery, reader response, and narrative closure. They discuss writers as varied as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Sarah Orne Jewett, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Mavis Gallant, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and Robert Olen Butler.
Among the less familiar topics they investigate are the Australian tall tale, the nineteenth-century queer short story, and contemporary Danish "short shorts."
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-1-57003-557-9 (9781570035579)
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Per Winther is a professor of American literature at the University of Oslo. The author of The Art of John Gardner: Instruction and Exploration, Winther serves as the editor of American Studies in Scandanavia. He lives in Flateby, Norway. Jakob Lothe is a professor of English literature at the University of Oslo. Lothe's works include Conrad's Narrative Method and Narrative in Fiction and Film. Lothe lives in Oslo. Hans H. Skei is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Oslo and chair of the Department of Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature. He is the author of three books on Faulkner's short story achievement. He also lives in Oslo.
