The first edition of May's Short Story Theories (1976) opened with an essay entitled, "The Short Story: An Underrated Art." Almost two decades later, the short story suffers no such slight. Publishers and critics have become increasingly interested in the form, which has enjoyed…
Historical genre, dispassionate presentation, and authorial judgment : the legacy of Maupassant and Chekhov -- Minimizing words and maximizing meaning : suggestiveness, concision, and omission -- Depicting consciousness in modern fiction : expressionism and impressionism from Cr…
"In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists. including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cezanne, Henry James, Guy…
In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists, including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cézanne, Henry James, Guy …
Presents a collection of fifty-two short stories, covering a wide range of international authors and offering insight into the art of short story, including works by Chinua Achebe, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Yukio Mishima, Eudora Welty, among others.
[This volume was] written and edited with the aim of creating an anthology of literary masterpieces that emphasized the individual, human origins of great fiction. [The volume] offer[s] a compelling survey of the short story that focused on a diverse representation of major auth…
