The New Short Story Theories

By: Charles E. May

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Paperback | 15 July 1994

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The first edition of May's Short Story Theories (1976) opened with an essay entitled "The Short Story: An Underrated Art." Almost two decades later, the short story suffers no such slight. Publishers and critics have become increasingly interested in the form, which has enjoyed a renaissance led by such writers as Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, Ann Beattie, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Mary Robison. An important part of this revival of interest, Short Story Theories has continued to attract a strong and loyal audience among students and teachers.

The New Short Story Theories includes a few basic pieces from the earlier volume-Poe's Hawthorne review, Brander Matthew's extension and formalization of Poe's theories, and essays by Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bowen, and Nadine Gordimer-but most of the essays are new to the collection.

Addressing problems of definition, historical considerations, issues of technique, and cognitive approaches, essays include:
"The Tale as Genre in Short Story Fiction," by W. S. Penn
"O. Henry and the Theory of the Short Story," by Suzanne C. Ferguson
"On Writing," by Raymond Carver
"From Tale to Short Story," by Robert F. Marler
"A Cognitive Approach to Storyness," by Susan Lohafer

May's new collection will continue to highlight the short story, to provoke debate, and to enrich our experience of a demanding and rewarding literary form.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Stories	p. 3
Story as Exemplum - Exemplum as Story: On the Pragmatics and Poetics of Narrative Texts	p. 15
The Tale as Genre in Short Fiction	p. 44
Poe on Short Fiction	p. 59
The Philosophy of the Short-Story	p. 73
O. Henry and the Theory of the Short Story	p. 81
The Short Story: The Long and the Short of It	p. 91
On Defining Short Stories	p. 114
The Nature of Knowledge in Short Fiction	p. 131
Notes on the Novella	p. 147
From Tale to Short Story: The Emergence of a New Genre in the 1850's	p. 165
Vision and Form: The English Novel and the Emergence of the Short Story	p. 182
The Short Story	p. 195
Chekhov and the Modern Short Story	p. 199
Defining the Short Story: Impressionism and Form	p. 218
The Lyric Short Story: The Sketch of a History	p. 231
Some Aspects of the Short Story	p. 245
The Faber Book of Modern Short Stories	p. 256
The Flash of Fireflies	p. 263
The Hallucinatory Point	p. 268
On Writing	p. 273
Story Comprehension: An Introduction	p. 281
A Cognitive Approach to Storyness	p. 301
A Selected, Annotated Bibliography of the Short Story	p. 312
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