The Rhetorical Short Story

Author : William M. Purcell
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780761848714

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The Rhetorical Short Story by William M. Purcell Pdf

In The Rhetorical Short Story, Purcell examines over ninety short stories as rhetorical artifacts of nearly a century of American history. The words of over seventy-five authors present a pastiche of American voices, from the early days of the Great War to the ongoing conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each of the stories features a type of rhetorical depiction that enables its audience to connect vicariously with the experience presented by the author. This account sees the transformation of the American perspective from an insular one, which emphasizes the purpose driven actions of strong individual agents, to ones in which individuals are caught up in the inevitable consequences of an all-determining stream of events.

Author : Dan Shen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136202421

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Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction by Dan Shen Pdf

In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and deeper level, throughout the text. In this volume, Dan Shen systematically investigates how stylistic analysis is indispensable for uncovering this covert progression through rhetorical narrative criticism. The book brings to light the covert progressions in works by the American writers Edgar Allan Poe, Stephan Crane and Kate Chopin and British writer Katherine Mansfield.

Author : Florence Goyet
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781909254756

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The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925 by Florence Goyet Pdf

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 Akutagawa Ry?nosuke - Goyet shows that these authors were able to create brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. In 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 periodicals. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. In doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this 'forgotten' genre.

Author : William Michael Purcell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9780761848691

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The Rhetorical Short Story by William Michael Purcell Pdf

This book examines over ninety short stories as rhetorical artifacts of nearly a century of American history, from the early days of the Great War to the ongoing conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each story features a type of rhetorical depiction that enables the audience to experience the tale vicariously.

Author : Laurie Kruk
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780776623245

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Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story by Laurie Kruk Pdf

Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is the first comparative study of eight internationally and nationally acclaimed writers of short fiction: Sandra Birdsell, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Thomas King, Alistair MacLeod, Olive Senior, Carol Shields and Guy Vanderhaeghe. With the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature going to Alice Munro, the “master of the contemporary short story,” this art form is receiving the recognition that has been its due and—as this book demonstrates—Canadian writers have long excelled in it. From theme to choice of narrative perspective, from emphasis on irony, satire and parody to uncovering the multiple layers that make up contemporary Canadian English, the short story provides a powerful vehicle for a distinctively Canadian “double-voicing”. The stories discussed here are compelling reflections on our most intimate roles and relationships and Kruk offers a thoughtful juxtaposition of themes of gender, mothers and sons, family storytelling, otherness in Canada and the politics of identity to name but a few. As a multi-author study, Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is broad in scope and its readings are valuable to Canadian literature as a whole, making the book of interest to students of Canadian literature or the short story, and to readers of both.

Author : Charles Raymond Barrett
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547409335

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Short Story Writing by Charles Raymond Barrett Pdf

Short Story Writing: A Practical Treatise on the Art of the Short Story by Charles Raymond Barrett is a practical guide to the various elements of the short story. Contents: "11 I The Short Story 15 II Short Stories Classified 26 III The Plot 45 IV Titles Good and Bad 64 V The Use of Facts 78 VI The Characters 94 VII Methods of Narration 119 VIII The Beginning 132 IX The Story Proper 149 X Climax and Conclusion."

Author : Benedict Ushedo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498242042

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James Baldwin and the Short Story by Benedict Ushedo Pdf

This book examines the range of issues that echo in James Baldwin's short stories. It articulates and defends the claim that the stories in the collection Going to Meet the Man are driven by the autobiographical memory of the author. To support this line of thought and the related proposition that the stories feed into themes relevant to self-knowledge, vicarious suffering, love, and forgiveness, their effectiveness as transformative and "revelatory texts" is highlighted. By drawing on contemporary studies and challenging the view that short stories are no more than miniature pieces merely echoing "major" works of their authors, this book demonstrates that the short story genre can be profoundly forceful and effective in the articulation of complex human issues. This study shows also that the humanistic import of the Baldwin stories is amplified by their ability to accumulate moral tension as they elicit the participation of the reader in an imaginative quest for a better world.

Author : Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571131272

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The Canadian Short Story by Reingard M. Nischik Pdf

Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by modernist writers in the 1920s, and brought to its heyday during the Canadian Renaissance starting in the 1960s, the short story has become Canada's flagship genre. It continues to attract the country's most accomplished and innovative writers today, among them Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, Carol Shields, and many others. Yet in contrast to the stature and popularity of the genre and the writers who partake in it, surprisingly little literary criticism and theory has been devoted to the Canadian short story. This collection redresses that imbalance by providing the first collection of critical interpretations of a range of thirty well-known and often-anthologized Canadian short stories from the genre's beginnings through the twentieth century. A historical survey of the genre introduces the volume and a timeline comparing the genre's development in Canada, the US, and Great Britain via representative examples completes it. The collection is geared both to specialists in and to students of Canadian literature. For the latter it is of particular benefit that the volume provides not only a collection of interpretations, but a comprehensive introduction to the history of the Canadian short story. Reingard M. Nischik is professor and chair of American Literature at the University of Constance, Germany.

Author : Wilmer Cave France Wright,Wilmer Cave Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Greek literature
ISBN : UOM:39015027645996

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A Short History of Greek Literature from Homer to Julian by Wilmer Cave France Wright,Wilmer Cave Wright Pdf

Author : Richard Toye
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191653728

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Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Toye Pdf

Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, deceptive language, and therefore as something negative. But if we view rhetoric in more neutral terms, as the 'art of persuasion', it is clear that we are all forced to engage with it at some level, if only because we are constantly exposed to the rhetoric of others. In this Very Short Introduction, Richard Toye explores the purpose of rhetoric. Rather than presenting a defence of it, he considers it as the foundation-stone of civil society, and an essential part of any democratic process. Using wide-ranging examples from Ancient Greece, medieval Islamic preaching, and modern cinema, Toye considers why we should all have an appreciation of the art of rhetoric. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Wayne C. Booth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226065595

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The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth Pdf

The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms—such as "the implied author," "the postulated reader," and "the unreliable narrator"—have become part of the standard critical lexicon. For this new edition, Wayne C. Booth has written an extensive Afterword in which he clarifies misunderstandings, corrects what he now views as errors, and sets forth his own recent thinking about the rhetoric of fiction. The other new feature is a Supplementary Bibliography, prepared by James Phelan in consultation with the author, which lists the important critical works of the past twenty years—two decades that Booth describes as "the richest in the history of the subject."

Author : Rebecca Fasselt,Corinne Sandwith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000562408

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The Short Story in South Africa by Rebecca Fasselt,Corinne Sandwith Pdf

This book considers the key critical interventions on short story writing in South Africa written in English since the year 2000. The short story genre, whilst often marginalised in national literary canons, has been central to the trajectory of literary history in South Africa. In recent years, the short story has undergone a significant renaissance, with new collections and young writers making a significant impact on the contemporary literary scene, and subgenres such as speculative fiction, erotic fiction, flash fiction and queer fiction expanding rapidly in popularity. This book examines the role of the short story genre in reflecting or championing new developments in South African writing and the ways in which traditional boundaries and definitions of the short story in South Africa have been reimagined in the present. Drawing together a range of critical interventions, including scholarly articles, interviews and personal reflective pieces, the volume traces some of the aesthetic and thematic continuities and discontinuities in the genre and sheds new light on questions of literary form. Finally, the book considers the place of the short story in twenty-first century writing and interrogates the ways in which the short story form may contribute to, or recast ideas of, the post-apartheid or post-transitional. The perfect guide to contemporary short story writing in South Africa, this book will be essential reading for researchers of African literature.

Author : Yuri Leving
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441142634

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Anatomy of a Short Story by Yuri Leving Pdf

A unique anthology devoted to a single story–“Signs and Symbols” by Vladimir Nabokov–which exposes the way we read and interpret short stories.

Author : Mohan Ramanan,Pingali Sailaja
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Indic fiction (English)
ISBN : 8125016600

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English and the Indian Short Story by Mohan Ramanan,Pingali Sailaja Pdf

The essays in this volume seek to explore the genre of the short story in India and its relationship with English language and literature. Various aspects of the question are taken up the impact of colonialism; the way English has shaped (or not) short story writing; why, how and in what contexts English words are used, feminist perspectives in the writings of women; the Indian diaspora; the teaching of the short story to Indian students and so on.

Author : Valerie Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317872788

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The Short Story by Valerie Shaw Pdf

Throughout this text, Valerie Shaw addresses two key questions: 'What are the special satisfactions afforded by reading short stories?' and 'How are these satisfactions derived from each story's literary techniques and narrative strategies?'. She then attempts to answer these questions by drawing on stories from different periods and countries - by authors who were also great novelists, like Henry James, Flaubert, Kafka and D.H. Lawrence; by authors who specifically dedicated themselves to the art of the short story, like Kipling, Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield; by contemporary practitioners like Angela Carter and Jorge Luis Borges; and by unfairly neglected writers like Sarah Orne Jewett and Joel Chandler Harris.