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- ISBN 9780415938839
- Weight: 244g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jan 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The short story is one of the most difficult types of prose to write and one of the most pleasurable to read. From Boccaccio's Decameron to The Collected Stories ofReynolds Price, Charles May gives us an understanding of the history and structure of this demanding form of fiction. Beginning with a general history of the genre, he moves on to focus on the nineteenth-century when the modern short story began to come into focus. From there he moves on to later nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century formalism and finally to the modern renaissance of the form that shows no signs of abating. A chronology of significant events, works and figures from the genre's history, notes and references and an extensive bibliographic essay with recommended reading round out the volume.
Charles E. May is Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of CriticalSurvey of Short Fiction, Short Story Writers, Interactingwith Essays, New Short Story Theories, Fictions ManyWorlds and Hyperstory. Edgar Allen Poe and TwentiethCentury Short Story.
