The classic short story, 1870-1925 : theory of a genre
The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular-the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Jezik: | Anglais |
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Cambridge :
Open Book Publishers
2015.
Marseille : OpenEdition |
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| Online dostop: | Ressource accessible en libre accès Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM ; Accès complet au document dans sa version HTML. Pas d'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub). |
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Description d'après la consultation, 2016-03-08 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : 211 pages OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • The @classic short story, 1870-1925, Texte imprimé, Cambridge, Open Book Publishers, 2014 |
| Izvleček: | The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular-the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing-particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagàwa Ryünosuke-Goyet shows that these authors were able tocreate brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. ln this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicills. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. ln doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this 'forgotten' genre. |
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| Opis knjige/članka: | Description d'après la consultation, 2016-03-08 Titre provenant de la page de titre du document électronique La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : 211 pages OpenEdition Books (freemium) |
| Format: | Navigateur Web |
| Bibliografija: | Bibliogr. Index |
| ISBN: | 9781909254770 9782821854079 |
| Dostop: | L'accès complet au document est ouvert à tous dans sa version HTML. L'accès aux autres formats (PDF, Epub) est réservé aux usagers des établissements qui en ont fait l'acquisition |