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Book Letters on the Short Story  the Drama  and Other Literary Topics  Selected and Edited by Louis S  Friedland  With a Pref  by Ernest J  Simmons

Download or read book Letters on the Short Story the Drama and Other Literary Topics Selected and Edited by Louis S Friedland With a Pref by Ernest J Simmons written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters on the Short Story  The Drama  and Other Literary Topics  by Anton Chekhov  Selected and Edited by Louis S  Friedland

Download or read book Letters on the Short Story The Drama and Other Literary Topics by Anton Chekhov Selected and Edited by Louis S Friedland written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters on the Short Story  the Drama and Other Literary Topics     Selected and Edited by Louis S  Friedland  With a Preface by Ernest J  Simmons

Download or read book Letters on the Short Story the Drama and Other Literary Topics Selected and Edited by Louis S Friedland With a Preface by Ernest J Simmons written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters on the Short Story  the Drama  and Other Literary Topics  by Anton CHekhov  Selected and Edited by Louis S  Friedland  With a Pref  by Ernest J  Simmons

Download or read book Letters on the Short Story the Drama and Other Literary Topics by Anton CHekhov Selected and Edited by Louis S Friedland With a Pref by Ernest J Simmons written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Short Story

Download or read book The Short Story written by Valerie Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout this text, Valerie Shaw addresses two key questions: 'What are the special satisfactions afforded by reading short stories?' and 'How are these satisfactions derived from each story's literary techniques and narrative strategies?'. She then attempts to answer these questions by drawing on stories from different periods and countries - by authors who were also great novelists, like Henry James, Flaubert, Kafka and D.H. Lawrence; by authors who specifically dedicated themselves to the art of the short story, like Kipling, Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield; by contemporary practitioners like Angela Carter and Jorge Luis Borges; and by unfairly neglected writers like Sarah Orne Jewett and Joel Chandler Harris.

Book Modern Drama in Theory and Practice  Volume 1  Realism and Naturalism

Download or read book Modern Drama in Theory and Practice Volume 1 Realism and Naturalism written by J. L. Styan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1981 volume begins with the French revolt against naturalism in theatre and then covers the European realist movement.

Book Books of 1912

Download or read book Books of 1912 written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Short Story

Download or read book The Short Story written by Charles May and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Anton Chekhov

Download or read book Anton Chekhov written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Anton Chekhov.

Book The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse

Download or read book The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse written by Kerry McSweeney and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An aesthetic perspective on the short fiction of Chekhov, Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, and Carver Taking a distinctively aesthetic approach to the genre of realist short fiction, Kerry McSweeney clusters the work of five masters--Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver--to offer a poetics of the form for students and scholars. At the center of this argument is the notion that the realist short story is a glimpse--powerful and tightly focused--into a world that the writer must precisely craft and in which the reader must fully invest. Selecting writers from different generational, national, and cultural backgrounds, McSweeney chooses writers based on their commitment to the realist representation of experience and their shared belief in the importance and efficacy of the short story form. By considering their efforts in tandem, he develops a means to assess the strategies and claims of realist short fiction. McSweeney demonstrates that when the comments these writers have made about their work are assembled and critically scrutinized, the result is an aesthetic critical model--as opposed to more interpretative models that focus attention on the determination (or indetermination) of meanings. He suggests that a fully adequate reading of a realist short story involves the integration of three components: the enjoyment and contemplation of the story in and of itself; affective receptivity, or a response to the story's emotional content; and cognitive activity, or the reflective consideration of the story's conceptual implications. In individual chapters on Chekov, Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, and Carver, this presentational model is applied to widely known and often anthologized readings from each writer. McSweeney brings into sharp focus the distinctive features of each piece, makes qualitative discriminations, and assesses the profitability of other critical models. He concludes with an invitation to test the mettle of his approach in reading other realist short story writers.

Book Bulletin of Bibliography and Dramatic Index

Download or read book Bulletin of Bibliography and Dramatic Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anton Chekhov

Download or read book Anton Chekhov written by Ronald L. Johnson and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though long recognized as one of the founding fathers of the short story, it is perhaps the combined longevity and scope of Anton Chekhov's influence that is most astounding. The list of authors, many of them contemporary, who routinely cite Chekhov as a major influence in their own writing could almost read as a who's who in 20th-century English and American literature. Indeed, the seemingly casual story of an ordinary life, told with articulate delicacy and heightened mood and detail, populates not only Chekhov's canon but also that of the modern short story. His ability to provide for the reader a truly intimate feel for what is most telling - a vista, the weather, a conversation - has become the cornerstone of the form. Prevalent in the works of Katherine Mansfield, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and Nadine Gordimer, among others, this distinctive style of writing is a testament to Chekhov's international influence. As with all the "greats" of literature, though, it is more than just style and structure that lives on: the motif of individual freedom, so prevalent in Chekhov's writing, is especially poignant today. In Anton Chekhov: A Study of the Short Fiction, Ronald L. Johnson follows the Russian master as he matures from a newspaper and magazine writer to becoming the "father" of the modern short story. In a chronological study of an astoundingly prolific career, Johnson examines a number of Chekhov stories in great detail, echoing the thorough attention to detail for which his subject was well known. In this comprehensive study, Johnson follows the development of what was to become the benchmark form of the short story, while also tracing the vitality and importance of thecontent of those stories. Johnson's study shows that Chekhov was more than just the father of a style, but was profoundly concerned with human rights and the search for a meaningful life.

Book The Rhetoric of Fiction

Download or read book The Rhetoric of Fiction written by Wayne C. Booth and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms—such as "the implied author," "the postulated reader," and "the unreliable narrator"—have become part of the standard critical lexicon. For this new edition, Wayne C. Booth has written an extensive Afterword in which he clarifies misunderstandings, corrects what he now views as errors, and sets forth his own recent thinking about the rhetoric of fiction. The other new feature is a Supplementary Bibliography, prepared by James Phelan in consultation with the author, which lists the important critical works of the past twenty years—two decades that Booth describes as "the richest in the history of the subject."

Book Plays

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anton Chekhov
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2002-09-03
  • ISBN : 1101160527
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book Plays written by Anton Chekhov and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-09-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anton Chekhov wrote that "narrative is my legal wife and drama a flamboyant, rowdy, impudent, exhausting mistress." At a time when the Russian stage was dominated by farces, formulaic melodramas, and vaudevilles, Chekhov created plays that focused on characters grappling with moral questions. His works baffled his audiences, but his sensitive explorations of love, loss, and time as well as his portrayal of complex characters and ambiguities, revolutionized the theater with an exhilarating new form of drama. This volume includes new translations, full explanatory notes, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary, as well as an introduction by eminent Chekhov scholar Richard Gilman.