
The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925: Theory of a Genre
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Contents
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Language
French
ISBN
9781909254756
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: STRUCTURE
1. Paroxystic Characterisation
Extremes in the fantastic short story
2. Antithetic Structure
Secondary tensions
Editing antithetic tension: Maupassant and James
3. Ending with a Twist
The “twist-in-the-tail” and antithetic tension
The “Twist-in-the-tail” and retroreading
“Open” texts and tension
4. The Tools of Brevity
Preconstructed material
Character types
Recurring characters and empty characters
Tight focus
Permanence of types
Hypotyposis and schematisation
Short stories, sensational news items and serials
The short story: privileged object of narratology
PART II: MEDIA
6. Exoticism in the Classic Short Story
The role of the press
Exotic subjects
The constraints of the newspapers
Exceptions to the rule
7. Short Stories and the Travelogue
Praise of nature, criticism of culture
From vision to judgement: guidelines for description
PART III: READER, CHARACTER AND AUTHOR
8. A Foreign World
An explicit distance
The use of types: subversion or immersion?
“Deceptive representations” of reality
The great man
“We are simply the case”: James and abstract entities
Reading at face value: the double distance
9. Dialogue and Character Discreditation
Direct and indirect speech: Verga’s novel versus short stories
Dialect and distancing
Foreign terms
10. The Narrator, the Reflector and the Reader
Unreliable narrators and reflectors
Reliable narrators and reflectors
The short story with a dilemma
Readers’ emotional response to the classic short story
12. Conclusion to Part III: Are Dostoevsky’s Short Stories Polyphonic?
Epilogue: Beyond the Classic Short Story
Lengthy stories: the long Yvette after the brief Yveline
Fantastic tales: the deconstruction of the self
Authors at a crossroads
Bibliography
Index
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Naturalism
Parox
Verga
James1
Chek
fan2
Mau
Stev
ohen
Verg1
Tieck
Akutagawa1
James2
Akutagawa2
Chek1
Mau1
James
James3
end
Chek2
Mau2
retro
Chek3
fan3
Mau3
read1
precon
read2
type
type1
read3
Chek5
prov
Mau4
cyc
emo
James5
James4
type2
Mau5
James6
hyp
fait
novel
news
Mau6
news1
Gil
Fanful
Ver2
Ver3
Chek6
sat
int
read4
Joyce
Prou
Mau7
read5
News2
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