What is a Short Story Besides Short? Questioning Minds in Search of Understanding Short Fiction
01 may 2014
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Publicado en línea: 01 may 2014
Páginas: 144 - 151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0018
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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.