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

Covering a century of writing that arguably saw all the major short forms emerge, from Hawthorne's 'Twice Told Tales' to Kafka's modernist nightmares, these essays offer new and unique inroads into classic texts, both for the literature student and aspiring writer.

Summary

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 ...

Product details

• Authors: A. S. Byatt, Ramsey Campbell, David Constantine, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Stuart Evers, Toby Litt, Ra Page, Ali Smith
• Assisted by: Ra Page (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogue UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2012
• EAN: 9781905583485
• ISBN: 978-1-905583-48-5
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works