Australia and New Zealand Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
Introduction
Frank O’Connor has suggested in The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story (1963) that the short story flourishes best in an incompletely developed culture such as a regional culture. Existing outside the centers of society confers the status of outsider, which, O’Connor argues, characterizes modern short fiction. It is perhaps this reason that explains, more than any other, the fact that the short story has been claimed at various times as the paradigmatic prose form for both Australia and New Zealand. The sense of isolation and distance from the...
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