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Short Story THE short story is a paradoxical form in that it is both common and
neglected: one or two specimens, at least, are to be found in any self-respecting
intellectual quarterly or glossy monthly, yet no one seems very interested in the ...
Short Story THE short story is a paradoxical form in that it is both common and
neglected: one or two specimens, at least, are to be found in any self-respecting
intellectual quarterly or glossy monthly, yet no one seems very interested in the ...
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It seems to me that the modern short-story writer is bound to see the world in a
certain way, not merely because of our customary atmosphere of crisis, but
because the form of the short story tends to filter down experience to the prime
elements ...
It seems to me that the modern short-story writer is bound to see the world in a
certain way, not merely because of our customary atmosphere of crisis, but
because the form of the short story tends to filter down experience to the prime
elements ...
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short stories; still one must insist on his extreme verbal skill, while finding what he
does with it very limited and ultimately monotonous. He places his characters
before us and then destroys them in an unerring way: it is a remarkable ...
short stories; still one must insist on his extreme verbal skill, while finding what he
does with it very limited and ultimately monotonous. He places his characters
before us and then destroys them in an unerring way: it is a remarkable ...
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Contents
preface | 7 |
The Novel No Longer Novel | 11 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Situation of the Novel Critical essays in modern literature, ISSN 0070-153X |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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