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***This is volume 1 of seven only.*** "Critical Survey of Short Fiction" is provided as an exhaustive examination of the history, characteristics, structure, and prime examples of literature's most popular form. There are three major divisions in this seven volume work, as outlined below: Essays, Authors, Current Authors. Essays are long, detailed, analytic treatments which synthesize a wide range of information, from the social and historical to the philosophic and religious to the technical and semantic. Clusters of essays examine the genres roots in such ancient forms as the ballot, the Bible narrative, the medieval epic; its development through modern chronological.; Its unique evolution in particular countries, regions, and ethnic groups. Because of the nature of short stories, the authors a set is arranged by authors rather than by works. Each author article includes at the beginning a list of printable short fiction works and brief sections discussing other literary forms in which the author wrote, influences on his work as well as the influence of his work on the writing of others, characteristics of his short fiction as a whole, and his biography. Finally the current authors section is a result of an invitation to several hundred current authors to contribute a one-page description of their work - their background, style, thematic concerns, and the like. This particular volume deals with the first 406 essays with such topics as: Short Fiction Chronology, Terms and Techniques, Point of View, Short Fiction: Beginnings to 1800, 1840-1880, Etc., Language and Narrative in the Bible, Parables of Jesus of Nazareth, the Fabled Tradition, the Saga and Tháttr, and Ballad Narrative.
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- PublisherSalem Press
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0893562114
- ISBN 13 9780893562113
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages406
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