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Writers on Writing The Art of the Short Story
Maurice A. Lee, ed.
ISBN: 0-313-31592-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31592-3
270 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2005
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £76.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • This book should be very intersting to readers, writers, and critics, as well as to those interested in the problems and implications of literary criticism for other fields.
    —Council on National Literatures Book Digest     October-December 2005
  • In this collection of nearly three dozen essays about short story, contributors reveal the diversity of their attitudes, backgrounds and approaches.
    —Reference & Research Book News     August 2005
Description: Short stories have enjoyed a long and popular history, with many famous writers attempting the craft at some point or another. Here, Lee assembles a variety of writers who comment on the form itself and its many meanings and manifestations. Concentrating on the features and challenges of the short story, contributors from Amiri Baraka to Richard Ford and Jayne Anne Phillips to Janette Turner Hospital discuss their own writing, the writing of others, the short story form, gender, politics, and other issues concerning the writing of short fiction. Readers will come away with a fuller understanding and appreciation of the craft of the short story writer.

Taking a populist approach to the subject, Writers on Writing focuses on relaying to readers the truth about short story writing. Writers from around the globe reveal the secrets of the form and their own approaches to it, as well as criticism of other writers and their output. Challenging some of the traditional views of past and current critics about short fiction, they present a new outlook on the short story that speaks to both the short story writer and the short story reader.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
    Dedication
    Introduction
    Preface
    The Short Story: Definition
    Relationship of Writer to Short Story
    Storytelling: The Short Story and Pedagogy
    Culture and the Short Story Form
    The Short Story and Politics
    The Role of Gender in Short Story Writing
    The Short Story: Process of Discovery
    The Short Story: Why We Write
    The Short Story: Form
    The Art of the Short Story
    About the Contributors
About the Author: Maurice A. Lee is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas. He is also the founder and Chief Editor of The Journal of Caribbean Literatures (JCLs), which he founded in 1999. He co-edited the book A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English (Greenwood, 2000).
LCC Class: 808
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