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100	1		_aGoyet, Florence.
245	1	4	_aThe Classic Short Story, 1870-1925 : _bTheory of a Genre.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aCambridge, UK : _bOpen Book Publishers, _c2014.
264		4	_c©2014.
300			_a1 online resource (223 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: STRUCTURE -- 1. Paroxystic Characterisation -- Extremes in the fantastic short story -- 2. Antithetic Structure -- Secondary tensions -- Editing antithetic tension: Maupassant and James -- 3. Ending with a Twist -- The "twist-in-the-tail" and antithetic tension -- The "Twist-in-the-tail" and retroreading -- "Open" texts and tension -- 4. The Tools of Brevity -- Preconstructed material -- Character types -- Recurring characters and empty characters -- Tight focus -- Permanence of types -- 5. Conclusion to Part I -- Hypotyposis and schematisation -- Short stories, sensational news items and serials -- The short story: privileged object of narratology -- PART II: MEDIA -- 6. Exoticism in the Classic Short Story -- The role of the press -- Exotic subjects -- The constraints of the newspapers -- Exceptions to the rule -- 7. Short Stories and the Travelogue -- Praise of nature, criticism of culture -- From vision to judgement: guidelines for description -- PART III: READER, CHARACTER AND AUTHOR -- 8. A Foreign World -- An explicit distance -- The use of types: subversion or immersion? -- "Deceptive representations" of reality -- The great man -- "We are simply the case": James and abstract entities -- Reading at face value: the double distance -- 9. Dialogue and Character Discreditation -- Direct and indirect speech: Verga's novel versus short stories -- Dialect and distancing -- Foreign terms -- 10. The Narrator, the Reflector and the Reader -- Unreliable narrators and reflectors -- Reliable narrators and reflectors -- 11. Distance and Emotion -- The short story with a dilemma -- Readers' emotional response to the classic short story -- 12. Conclusion to Part III: Are Dostoevsky's Short Stories Polyphonic? -- Epilogue: Beyond the Classic Short Story.
505	8		_aLengthy stories: the long Yvette after the brief Yveline -- Fantastic tales: the deconstruction of the self -- Authors at a crossroads -- Bibliography -- Index.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
700	1		_aFreccero, Yvonne.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aGoyet, Florence _tThe Classic Short Story, 1870-1925 _dCambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers,c2014 _z9781909254763
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3384122 _zClick to View
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