Reading the Short Story

Thoughts on reading and studying the short story by a guy who's read and written about a lot of short stories.

Showing posts with label Hawthorne. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Hawthorne. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Short Story Month: 2015--Hawthorne, "Wakefield" and "Young Goodman Brown"

In the Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Nathaniel Hawthorne notes that the romance form is governed by its own laws, not th...

Monday, September 24, 2012

Is the Short Story an Obsessive, Unnatural Form?

The short story's dependence on tightly unified form rather than mimetic methods has been its central aesthetic characteristic sin...

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