Title: The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse
First published: November 15, 2007
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.
Subjects: Realism in literature, Modern Literature, History and criticism, Short story, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 19th century, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 20th century, Criticism and interpretation