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TIME AND THE SHORT STORY KARTONIERT (TB)

The short story as an autonomous genre has called the attention of both writers and literary
critics with theoretical concerns over the last two centuries. It is a form of writing that has
met the favour of readers and publishers alike: because of its very brevity  it can be consumed
in a short time  and so come up to a reader's need of either escapist or serious literature  it
can be practiced  like the novel  according to different narrative modalities: from popular
genres  which satisfy the demands of the literary market  to experimental writing. Finally  as
a self-contained form  it works well at a didactic level  in British and American universities
for instance  short stories are generally studied in Creative Writing courses. The essays
included in the present volume deal with short stories belonging to various literatures in
English (and not only)  and focus on time  which is looked at from different angles: as the
theme  or motif  of a text  as a narrative structure which can be approached in narratological
terms  with neat distinctions between the time of story and the time of discourse  between
writing time and reading time  as history  merging into memory and myth.

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