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DEFINING THE SHORT STORY: IMPRESSIONISM AND FORM.
- Source :
- Modern Fiction Studies; Spring82, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p13-24, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 1982
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Abstract
- The article defines the short story. That there is no large and distinguished corpus of short story theory because the short story does not exist as a discrete and independent genre is a hypothesis that ought to be taken seriously on occasion, if only to contemplate the perspective the hypothesis provides. A structuralist conception of fiction tends to confirm the suspicion that there may be no rational way to distinguish "short story" from other narratives in the same mimetic mode: all stories, short and long, have certain required properties of narrativity.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00267724
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Modern Fiction Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 15717317