The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse
Subtitle: Chekhov to Carver
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: November 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781570036958
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 19th century; 20th century; History and criticism; Literature, Modern; Realism in literature
Description: "Taking an aesthetic approach to the genre of realist short fiction, Kerry McSweeney clusters the work of five masters - Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver - to offer a poetics of the form for students and scholars. At the center of this argument is the notion that the realist short story is a glimpse - powerful and tightly focused - into a world that the writer must precisely craft and in which the reader must fully invest."--Jacket.