The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice

The short story is one of the most difficult types of prose to write and one of the most pleasurable to read. From Boccaccio's Decameron to The Collected Stories of Reynolds Price, Charles May gives us an understanding of the history and structure of this demanding form of fiction. Beginning with a general history of the genre, he moves on to focus on the nineteenth-century when the modern short story began to come into focus. From there he moves on to later nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century formalism and finally to the modern renaissance of the form that shows no signs of abating. A chronology of significant events, works and figures from the genre's history, notes and references and an extensive bibliographic essay with recommended reading round out the volume.

Author: Charles May
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01/02/2002
Series: Genres in Context
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.52w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780415938839