Less is more
Subtitle: short fiction theory and analysis
By: edited by Jakob Lothe, Hans H. Skei and Per Winther
Series: Novus studies in literature -- 9; Novus studies in literature -- 9.
Publisher: Novus Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oslo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9788270994939
Subjects: Short story; American Short stories; History and criticism; Nouvelle; Nouvelles américaines; Histoire et critique
Other titles: Short fiction theory and analysis
Notes: A sequel to: The art of brevity: excursions in short fiction theory and analysis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Short fiction and questions of genre; title: A sketch of the events : illustration, time and reader involvement in the Sherlock Holmes stories / Stuart Sillars; title: Henry James's turn-of-the-century nouvelles : centers of consciousness and unlived lives / Dieter Meindl; title: A response to absent racial marking : Morrison's short story experiment Recitatif and its significance for her practice as novelist / Hans Löfgren; title: The DNA of genre : micro- and macro-markers of genre in Best American short stories and essays / Susan Lohafer; title: Tradition and innovation : short fiction of the American South; title: Contextual spaces of place and race in Eudora Welty's Livvie / Pearl Amelia McHaney; title: The detective short story, with a note on Faulkner's attempts in the genre / Hans H. Skei; title: The real short of it : a door might suddenly swing open / Jan Nordby Gretlund; title: Minimalism and beyond : the contemporary short story; title: The posthumous life of Raymond Carver : unfinished business in the poem Mother and the story Boxes / Sandra Lee Kleppe; title: Minimalism and mystery : quest for epiphany as a function of desire / Per Winther; title: Melancholy encyclopedias : Rick Moody's Demonology and George Saunders' Offloading for Mrs Schwartz / Michael Trussler; title: Short fiction and other media; title: Photograph, story, and memory in Sherman Alexie's The lone ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Laura Castor; title: Dreams are downright silly : a comparative reading of Alice Munro's The love of a good woman and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes wide shut / Ailsa Cox; title: Episodic fiction and film : the case of Selby, Jr.'s Last exit to Brooklyn / Rolf Lundén; title: Narrative beginnings in the short story and film : The dead and Short cuts / Jokob Lothe.