Wise Economies: Brevity and Storytelling in American Short StoriesUniversity of Idaho Press, 1997 - 315 pages Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press The author departs from traditional genre criticism, presenting a central argument that can be read two ways: from a rhetorical perspective, in which each part examines the interpretive work that a specific narrative device demands within a set of exemplary texts; and from a historical perspective, in which each part emphasizes the contextual function of these devices by examining the stories as expressions of the four most prominent narrative styles that developed between the early nineteenth century and the 1980s--romanticism, realism, modernism, and minimalism. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Getting the Point | 15 |
Extratextual Framing and Sermonic Rhetoric in Wakefield | 57 |
Copyright | |
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