The Short Story (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Bayley
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Literary history and criticism
- Time of Work: 1865 to the late twentieth century
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Arts
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Literature, Writing, Literary criticism
The title of John Bayley's tenth book of criticism is perhaps somewhat misleading in that it suggests a historical overview of the growth and development of the short story over the century preceding his book's publication. What Bayley has provided, however, is something far more valuable than a chronological overview of short-story schools, influences, successes, and failures: a contribution to the relatively small corpus of short-story theory. Since Edgar Allan Poe's seminal review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales (1837), an essay that included the famous dictum that...
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