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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goyet, Florence
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Open Book Publishers 2014, 2014
Subjects:
Literature / Philosophy
Literature / History And Criticism / Theory, Etc
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Online Access:
Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • James3end
  • Chek2
  • Mau2
  • retro
  • Chek3
  • fan3
  • Mau3
  • read1
  • precon
  • read2
  • type
  • type1
  • read3
  • Chek5
  • prov
  • Mau4
  • cyc
  • emo
  • James5
  • James4
  • type2
  • Mau5
  • James6
  • hyp
  • fait
  • novel
  • news
  • Mau6
  • news1
  • Gil
  • Fanful
  • Ver2
  • Ver3
  • Chek6
  • sat
  • int
  • read4
  • Joyce
  • Prou
  • Mau7
  • read5
  • News2
  • An explicit distanceThe use of types: subversion or immersion?
  • “Deceptive representationsâ€? of reality
  • The great man
  • “We are simply the caseâ€?: James and abstract entities
  • Reading at face value: the double distance
  • 9. Dialogue and Character Discreditation
  • Direct and indirect speech: Vergaâ€?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 dilemmaReadersâ€? emotional response to the classic short story
  • 12. Conclusion to Part III: Are Dostoevskyâ€?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
  • read
  • Naturalism
  • Parox
  • Verga
  • James1
  • Chek
  • fan2
  • Mau
  • Stev
  • ohen
  • Verg1
  • Tieck
  • Akutagawa1
  • James2
  • Akutagawa2
  • Chek1
  • Mau1
  • James
  • 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
  • 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-tailâ€? and antithetic tension
  • The “Twist-in-the-tailâ€? and retroreading
  • “Openâ€? texts and tension
  • 4. The Tools of Brevity
  • Preconstructed material
  • Character types
  • Recurring characters and empty characters
  • Tight focus
  • Includes bibliographical references (197-206) and index

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