The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse: Chekhov to Carver

by Kerry McSweeney

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1570036950

ISBN13:9781570036958

Release Date:November 2007

Publisher:University of South Carolina Press

Length:136 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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