What is a Short Story Besides Short? Questioning Minds in Search of Understanding Short Fiction
The paper seeks to identify the cluster of essential features for a working definition of the short story, in an attempt to establish short fiction as a fully independent literary genre. I further explore the fundamental mode of thinking and of imagination generated by reading short fiction.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0018 |
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| author | Tucan Gabriela |
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| description | The paper seeks to identify the cluster of essential features for a working definition of the short story, in an attempt to establish short fiction as a fully independent literary genre. I further explore the fundamental mode of thinking and of imagination generated by reading short fiction. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f63569845810488bba9859e0499d50122022-12-22T00:46:17ZengSciendoRomanian Journal of English Studies1584-37342286-04282014-03-0111114415110.2478/rjes-2014-0018rjes-2014-0018What is a Short Story Besides Short? Questioning Minds in Search of Understanding Short FictionTucan Gabriela0West University of TimişoaraThe paper seeks to identify the cluster of essential features for a working definition of the short story, in an attempt to establish short fiction as a fully independent literary genre. I further explore the fundamental mode of thinking and of imagination generated by reading short fiction.https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0018counterfactual thinkinghypothetical plotsshort storystructural brevity |
| spellingShingle | Tucan Gabriela What is a Short Story Besides Short? Questioning Minds in Search of Understanding Short Fiction Romanian Journal of English Studies counterfactual thinking hypothetical plots short story structural brevity |
| title | What is a Short Story Besides Short? Questioning Minds in Search of Understanding Short Fiction |
| title_full | What is a Short Story Besides Short? Questioning Minds in Search of Understanding Short Fiction |
| title_fullStr | What is a Short Story Besides Short? Questioning Minds in Search of Understanding Short Fiction |
| title_full_unstemmed | What is a Short Story Besides Short? Questioning Minds in Search of Understanding Short Fiction |
| title_short | What is a Short Story Besides Short? Questioning Minds in Search of Understanding Short Fiction |
| title_sort | what is a short story besides short questioning minds in search of understanding short fiction |
| topic | counterfactual thinking hypothetical plots short story structural brevity |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0018 |
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