| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Description |
xiv, 381 pages ; 19 cm. |
| Series |
Anchor Books
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Anchor Books.
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| Note |
"A354." |
| Contents |
I. The Story: -- Definitions of the Short Story -- Short Story vs. Novel -- Subject, Theme, Single Incident -- Brevity -- Details -- II. The Storyteller: -- Definitions of the Writer -- Life and the Writer -- Objectivity -- The Training of the Writer -- The Writer and the Reader -- III. The Creative Process: -- Sensibility -- Sincerity -- Observation -- The Origins of Stories -- Notebooks -- IV. Technical, Aspects: -- Style -- Titles -- Beginning -- Ending -- Characters -- Form -- Plot -- Dialogue -- Point of View -- Setting -- V. Storyteller As Critic: -- Melville on Hawthorne -- James on Maupassant -- Mann on Chekhov -- Bowen on Gorki -- O'Faolain on James -- Aiken on Mansfield -- Lawrence on Mann -- Porter on Welty |
| Subject |
Short story.
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Short story. |
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Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
| Added Author |
Burkhart, Charles.
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