The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse - Chekhov to Carver

Informationen zum Autor Kerry McSweeney is the Molson Professor of English at McGill University in Montreal, where he teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature. His previous books include The Language of the Senses: Sensory-Perceptual Dynamics in Wordsworth, Coleridge, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dickinson; Supreme Attachments: Studies in Victorian Love Poetry; What's the Import?; and Nineteenth-Century Poems and Contemporary Critical Practice. Klappentext An aesthetic perspective on the short fiction of Chekhov, Joyce, Hemingway, OConnor, and Carver Zusammenfassung Taking an aesthetic approach to the genre of realist short fiction! this book clusters the work of five masters - Anton Chekhov! James Joyce! Ernest Hemingway! Flannery O'Connor! and Raymond Carver - to offer a poetics of the form for students and scholars. It assesses the strategies and claims of realist short fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Kerry McSweeney
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2007
• EAN: 9781570036958
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-695-8
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies