The Art of Brevity by Per Winther

The Art of Brevity by Per Winther

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The Art of Brevity by Per Winther

The Art of Brevity offers an international, inclusive exploration of the steadily growing field of short story studies. Contributors weave together themes of time, space, compression, mystery, reader response, and narrative closure. They discuss writers as varied as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Sarah Orne Jewett, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Mavis Gallant, Flannery O�Connor, Eudora Welty, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and Robert Olen Butler. Among the less familiar topics they investigate are the Australian tall tale, the nineteenth-century queer story, and contemporary Danish �short shorts.�
Per Winther is a professor of American literature at the University of Oslo. The author of The Art of John Gardner: Instruction and Exploration, Winther serves as the editor of American Studies in Scandanavia. He lives in Flateby, Norway. Jakob Lothe is a professor of English literature at the University of Oslo. Lothe's works include Conrad's Narrative Method and Narrative in Fiction and Film. Lothe lives in Oslo. Hans H. Skei is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Oslo and chair of the Department of Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature. He is the author of three books on Faulkner's short story achievement. He also lives in Oslo.
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ISBN 13 9781611170450
ISBN 10 1611170451
Title The Art of Brevity
Author Per Winther
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of South Carolina Press
Year published 2011-09-30
Number of pages 224
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