Flash fiction /

Provides essays that discuss both prominent forbearers and current practitioners, including Kate Chopin, Franz Kafka, Julio Cortazar, Amy Hempel, and Lydia Davis.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cocchiarale, Michael, 1966- (Editor), Emmert, Scott, 1962- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, MA : Amenia, NY : EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Grey House Publishing, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • About This Volume
  • On Flash Fiction
  • Flash Fiction: From Text to Audio to Music, Stage, and Film Adaptations
  • Flash Fiction and the Critical Scholarship: A Search for Independence
  • Flash and Fabulism: A New Marriage of Old Forms
  • The Destroyer and the Rotten Heart: Comparing and Contrasting Donald Barthelme's "The Baby" and Amelia Gray's "The Heart"
  • Kate Chopin's Flash Fiction and Flash Fiction Theory
  • Against Short Attention Spans: "Fragmentary" Fiction for "Fragmentary" Lives
  • Living Together, Living Apart: Jews under Oppressive Russian Regimes in Isaac Babel's Flash Fiction
  • Latin American Flash Fiction: Julio Cortazar and Luisa Valenzuela
  • "Art is not in some far-off place": Lydia Davis's "one-paragraph freedom"
  • Shameful Secrets and Seducing the Whole World: Amy Hempel's Flash Fiction and Female Sexuality
  • "a few very pleasant shocks": Diane Williams and the Art of Flash Fiction
  • Kathy Fish's Flash Fiction: Fishing for Meaning in a Diminished World
  • The Mathematics of the Heart: Mary Robison Considered as a Flash Fiction Novelist
  • Nanofiction and the Limits of the Form: Insights from the 420-Character Fictions of Lou Beach
  • Additional Works of Flash Fiction
  • Bibliography
  • About the Editors
  • Contributors
  • Index.