Reading for storyness
Subtitle: preclosure theory, empirical poetics, and culture in the short story
By: Susan Lohafer.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Short story.; Narration (Rhetoric)
Description: "In Reading for Storyness, Susan Lohafer, former president of the Society for the Study of the Short Story, argues that there is much more than length separating short stories from novels and other works of fiction. With its close readings of stories by Kate Chopin, Julio Cortazar, Katherine Mansfield, and others, this book challenges assumptions about the short story and effectively redefines the genre in a fresh and original way."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-185) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Once more into the forest; title: 2. Preclosure basics in a Kate; title: 3. Preclosing an "open" story by Julio Cortázar; title: 4. Preclosure and the history of the American short story; title: 5. Katherine Mansfield and Sandra Cisneros; title: 6. Loving (?) Raymond Carver; title: 7. Revisiting Ann Beattie; title: 8. The largeness of minimalism in Bobbie Ann Mason; title: 9. A short story and its nonfiction counterpart.