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"I Am Your Brother": Short Story Studies
Contents
Preface i
Introduction: “I Am Your Brother” 1
1 Genre and the Short Story 15
2 History and the Short Story 29
3 The Novel and the Short Story 51
4 Shortness of the Short Story 73
5 Mystery and Obsession in the Short Story 91
6 Metaphoric Motivation and the Short Story 113
7 Mythic Perception: Steinbeck & Malamud 125
8 Birth of the Modern Short Story: Chekhov 145
9 Love and Separateness in the Short Story: Welty 173
10 Artifice in the Short Story: Malamud and Williams 189
11 Saying the Unsayable in the Short Story: Carver 211
12 The Short Story Way of Meaning: Munro 235
Epilogue 259
Works Cited 261
Acknowledgements 273
Index 274