Morphologies: How to Build a Short Story That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later

Page, Ra (Editor)/ Evers, Stuart/ Byatt, A. S./ Campbell, Ramsey/ Constantine, David

ISBN 10: 1905583486 / ISBN 13: 9781905583485

Verlag: Carcanet Pr, 2014

Beschreibung

204 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers __1905583486

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Morphologies: How to Build a Short Story That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
• Verlag: Carcanet Pr
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1905583486
• ISBN-13: 9781905583485
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Brand New

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Inhaltsangabe

What makes for a good short story? Being short, you might think the storys structure would yield an answer to this question more readily than, say, the novel. But for as long as the short story has been around, arguments have raged as to what it should and shouldnt be made up of, what it should and shouldnt do. Here,15 leading contemporary practitioners offer structural appreciations of past masters of the form as well as their own perspectives on what the short story does so well. The best short stories dont have closure, argues one contributor, because life doesnt have closure; plot must be written with the denouement constantly in view, quotes another. Covering a century of writing that arguably saw all the major short forms emerge, from Hawthornes Twice Told Tales to Kafkas modernist nightmares, these essays offer new and unique inroads into classic texts, both for the literature student and aspiring writer.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ra Page is the editor of The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories and the founder and editor of Manchester Stories magazine. He has edited several anthologies published by Carcanet Press, including Lemistry: A Celebration of the Work of Stanislaw Lem and Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science. He has written for the Guardian, the New Statesman, and the Times, and is the recipient of a Jerwood Foundation Bursary. He is deputy editor of City Life and a director of the Manchester Poetry Festival.