Book Review: An Organon of Life Knowledge: Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North America, by Michael Basseler (Bielefeld, Transcript, 2019)

Anyone interested or engaged in short story theory and criticism cannot but welcome the publication of Michael Basseler’s An Organon of Life Knowledge: Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North America. This monograph is undoubtedly an important contribution to the study of the short narrati...

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Izdano u:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jsse,
Glavni autor: Sacido Romero, Jorge
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jezik:Anglais
Izdano: Journal of the Short Story in English 2021
Online pristup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sažetak:Anyone interested or engaged in short story theory and criticism cannot but welcome the publication of Michael Basseler’s An Organon of Life Knowledge: Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North America. This monograph is undoubtedly an important contribution to the study of the short narrative form, a field that has experienced an unprecedented growth in the last thirty years or so. The volume tackles the old question of the connection between literature and life by investigating—to q...