| The Ordinary and the Short Story: Short Fiction of T.F. Powys and V.S. Pritchett Contributor(s): Wilczynski, Marek (Other), Wojtyna, Milosz (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631662262 ISBN-13: 9783631662267 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $73.31 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.912 |
| LCCN: 2015029767 |
| Series: Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" (0.90 lbs) 230 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This formalist-narratological study of T.F. Powys' and V.S. Pritchett's short fiction reestablishes both authors as important contributors to the history of the short story form. It also discusses how writers, who did not belong to the modernist avant-garde innovation, address the problems of the short story form in the twentieth century. The study takes a close look at the uses of the ordinary and analyses character, setting, and event presentation, narrators, audiences, narrativity, eventfulness, causality, and narrative rhetoric. It presents two kinds of short fiction and two kinds of the ordinary: the ecstatic one, focused on violations of norm, and the static kind that reassures its patterns. |
