TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karl,Frederick Robert
AU  - Hamalian,Leo
TI  - The Shape of Fiction: British and American Short Stories
PY  - 1967///
CY  - New York
PB  - McGraW-Hill
KW  - CRITICA LITERARIA
KW  - CUENTO
KW  - IRLANDA
KW  - CRÍTICA LITERARIA
KW  - REINO UNIDO
KW  - ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
KW  - LITERATURA
KW  - ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA
N1  - Biographical Notes p. 525 - Author Index p. 541 - Title Index p. 542
N2  - The Shape of Fiction: British and American Stories is an analytical text, wich includes with each story, analysis and questions that lead the student toward interpretation.
Brief introductions acquaint the student with each significant aspect of fiction. The collection covers the full range of American fiction from the "classics" of Poe, and James to such "modern classics" as those of Hemingway, Faulkner, K. A. Porter. Contemporary writers including Updike, Purdy appear together with the masters of English short fiction: Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence and H. G. Wells.
This material is organized by means of the basic aspects of genre: plot, character, mood, theme, style and point of view
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