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Author:

Bayley, John, 1925-

Title:

The short story : Henry James to Elizabeth Bowen / John Bayley.

Publisher:

St. Martin's Press,

Copyright Date:

1988

Description:

viii, 197 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Short story.
Short stories, English--History and criticism.
Nouvelle.
Nouvelles anglaises--Histoire et critique.

Notes:

Bibliography: p. 190-191. Includes index.

Contents:

Ch. 1 The theory of the short story. Poems as short stories. Larkin, Yeats and Wordsworth -- Ch. 2 Conrad. Henry James. Todorov's theory of James's stories. 'The Turn of the Screw', 'A Landscape-Painter' -- Ch. 3 Kipling's puzzels and paradoxes. Hemmingway. 'Indian Camp'. The theory of the 'impossible event'. 'The wickedest story in the woirld'. 'Mrs Bathhurst' -- Ch. 4 Chekhov. 'The Lady with the Dog'. Katherine Mansfield. D. H. Lawrence. Another kind of 'impossible event'. 'The Blind Man' and 'The Princess'. 'Love, he bawled'. Hardy's stories. 'On the Western Circuit' -- Ch. 5 James Joyce: Dubliners. Epiphanies and 'studious meanness'. 'The Dead'. An Irish tradition. Elizabeth Bowen. 'Mysterious Kor' -- Ch. 6 Conclusion.

ISBN:

9780312016692
0312016697

LCCN:

87036942

Locations:

6AAX145 -- Carroll Campus Library (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)