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Tag: Short Story

114. (Joy Williams)

When a short story is successful, a reader ends it feeling certain that it could not have been a novel … More

American Literature, Flannery O'Connor, Joy Williams, Short Story

61. (Eudora Welty)

Eudora Welty is as inaccessible a writer of short fiction as any. Like Hawthorne, she writes short stories that sit … More

Dante, Eudora Welty, Hawthorne, Realism, Short Story

60. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

The short story is the most resistant of literary puzzles: what it is, or what it does, or why people … More

Eudora Welty, Kafka, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Short Story

53. (Flannery O’Connor)

Irony, so common, sets her apart. She is ironic without archness, without super-subtlety, without glib or coy superiority, without contempt, … More

Flannery O'Connor, Irony, Prose, Short Story

5. (D.H. Lawrence)

V.S. Pritchett, introducing his edition of the Oxford Book of Short Stories, admits that he admires D.H. Lawrence most as a … More

Blackmur, D.H.Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Fiction, George Eliot, Modernism, Poetry, Robert Frost, Short Story, Thomas Hardy
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