The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925 : Theory of a Genre /: Theory of a Genre. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Florence Goyet.
• Authors: Goyet, Florence
• Contents: ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I: STRUCTURE""; ""1. Paroxystic Characterisation""; ""Extremes in the fantastic short story""; ""2. Antithetic Structure""; ""Secondary tensions""; ""Editing antithetic tension: Maupassant and James""; ""3. Ending with a Twist""; ""The “twist-in-the-tailâ€? and antithetic tension ""; ""The “Twist-in-the-tailâ€? and retroreading""; ""“Openâ€? texts and tension""; ""4. The Tools of Brevity""; ""Preconstructed material""; ""Character types""; ""Recurring characters and empty characters""; ""Tight focus"" ""Permanence of types""""5. Conclusion to Part I""; ""Hypotyposis and schematisation""; ""Short stories, sensational news items and serials""; ""The short story: privileged object of narratology""; ""PART II: MEDIA""; ""6. Exoticism in the Classic Short Story""; ""The role of the press""; ""Exotic subjects""; ""The constraints of the newspapers""; ""Exceptions to the rule""; ""7. Short Stories and the Travelogue""; ""Praise of nature, criticism of culture""; ""From vision to judgement: guidelines for description""; ""PART III: READER, CHARACTER AND AUTHOR""; ""8. A Foreign World"" ""An explicit distance""""The use of types: subversion or immersion?""; ""“Deceptive representationsâ€? of reality""; ""The great man""; ""“We are simply the caseâ€?: James and abstract entities""; ""Reading at face value: the double distance""; ""9. Dialogue and Character Discreditation""; ""Direct and indirect speech: Vergaâ€?s novel versus short stories""; ""Dialect and distancing""; ""Foreign terms""; ""10. The Narrator, the Reflector and the Reader""; ""Unreliable narrators and reflectors""; ""Reliable narrators and reflectors""; ""11. Distance and Emotion"" ""The short story with a dilemma""""Readersâ€? emotional response to the classic short story""; ""12. Conclusion to Part III: Are Dostoevskyâ€?s Short Stories Polyphonic?""; ""Epilogue: Beyond the Classic Short Story""; ""Lengthy stories: the long Yvette after the brief Yveline""; ""Fantastic tales: the deconstruction of the self""; ""Authors at a crossroads""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""read""; ""Naturalism""; ""Parox""; ""Verga""; ""James1""; ""Chek""; ""fan2""; ""Mau""; ""Stev""; ""ohen""; ""Verg1""; ""Tieck""; ""Akutagawa1""; ""James2""; ""Akutagawa2""; ""Chek1""; ""Mau1""; ""James"" ""James3""""end""; ""Chek2""; ""Mau2""; ""retro""; ""Chek3""; ""fan3""; ""Mau3""; ""read1""; ""precon""; ""read2""; ""type""; ""type1""; ""read3""; ""Chek5""; ""prov""; ""Mau4""; ""cyc""; ""emo""; ""James5""; ""James4""; ""type2""; ""Mau5""; ""James6""; ""hyp""; ""fait""; ""novel""; ""news""; ""Mau6""; ""news1""; ""Gil""; ""Fanful""; ""Ver2""; ""Ver3""; ""Chek6""; ""sat""; ""int""; ""read4""; ""Joyce""; ""Prou""; ""Mau7""; ""read5""; ""News2""
• Publisher Details: Cambridge, England : Open Book Publishers
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (223 pages)
• Subjects: 801.95; Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Literature -- Philosophy; Literary form -- History; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory; Literary form; Literature -- Philosophy; Literature -- Theory, etc; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781909254770; 1909254770; 1909254789; 9781909254787; 1909254797; 9781909254794
• Related ISBNs: 9781909254763; 9781909254787; 9781909254794; 1909254762; 9781909254756; 1909254754
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 08, 2014).
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