Flash fiction /
Provides essays that discuss both prominent forbearers and current practitioners, including Kate Chopin, Franz Kafka, Julio Cortazar, Amy Hempel, and Lydia Davis.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ipswich, MA : Amenia, NY :
EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Grey House Publishing,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Critical insights.
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| 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.