Details

Edition

4th ed.

Description

1 online resource (614 pages) : illustrations

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Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Publisher's note -- Contributions -- Key to pronunciation -- Theory of short fiction -- The detective story -- Experimental short fiction -- The fable tradition -- Fairy tales and fantasy -- Flash fiction -- The folktale -- Jewish short fiction -- Magical realism in short fiction -- Minimalist short fiction -- The parable -- Regional short fiction -- The science-fiction story -- The sketch -- The supernatural story -- Short fiction in antiquity -- The saga and thattr -- The early Middle Ages -- The medieval romance -- The Renaissance novelle -- The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The eighteenth century -- The early nineteenth century : 1800-1840 -- The late nineteenth century : 1840-1880 -- The turn of the twentieth century : 1880-1920 -- The mid-twentieth century : 1920-1960 -- The late twentieth century : 1960-2000 -- The twenty-first century : 2000-2010 -- African short fiction -- African American short fiction -- Asian American short fiction -- Australia and New Zealand short fiction -- Canadian short fiction -- Caribbean short fiction -- Chinese short fiction -- Czech short fiction -- English short fiction -- French short fiction -- German short fiction -- Irish short fiction -- Italian short fiction -- Japanese short fiction -- Latin American short fiction -- Latino short fiction -- Middle Eastern short fiction -- Native American short fiction -- Polish short fiction -- Russian short fiction -- Scottish short fiction -- South Asian short fiction -- Southeast Asian short fiction -- Spanish short fiction -- Welsh short fiction -- Terms and techniques -- Bibliography -- Timeline -- Chronological list of writers -- Subject index.

Summary

Provides overview essays organized into three categories: theories, themes and types, history of short fiction, and short fiction around the world. New overviews include experimental short fiction, twenty-first century short fiction, and Spanish short fiction.

Description based on

Print version record.

Subject

Short story.

Short story -- Bio-bibliography.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.

Short story.

Genre/Form

Bio-bibliography.

Added Author

May, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1941-

Added Title

Topical essays

Other Form:

Print version: Critical survey of short fiction. Topical essays. 4th ed. Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, ©2012 9781587658006 (OCoLC)794674472

ISBN

9781587658099 (electronic bk.)

1587658097 (electronic bk.)