The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse: Chekhov to Carver

by Kerry McSweeney

An aesthetic perspective on the short fiction of Chekhov, Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, and Carver

Taking a distinctively aesthetic approach to the genre of realist short fiction, Kerry McSweeney clusters the work of five masters--Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver--to offer a poetics of the form for students and scholars. At the center of this argument is the notion that the realist short...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570036950
• ISBN13: 9781570036958
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"