Romanian Journal of English Studies (Mar 2014)

What is a Short Story Besides Short? Questioning Minds in Search of Understanding Short Fiction

  • Tucan Gabriela

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0018
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 144 – 151

Abstract

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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.

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