ENG215H1 Lecture : ENG215 LEC01

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Short stories brief work of prose fiction, tending to be no longer than 10 000 words. Aristotle differs from a novel; magnitude . Because of story shortness, people believed it was limited (character intro, space, etc ) Contemporary theorists (critics) emphasize what short stories can and can"t do. Can: expansiveness, depth, density, complexity, ambiguity, texture, openness, determined by author"s artistic goals and authority, short story can be anything that author writes it to be. Genre isn"t limited to a character, scene, plot, etc . Considerations in canadian short story (repeated themes): Landscape significant; not just setting but character: changes with contemporary canadian short story to an urban setting. Human relationships gender issues, relationships, partnerships (how they"re written in can. Marginalization displacement converge questions of ambiguity. Memory history (past in present narratives) Social, cultural, etc art"s potential and meaning form: techniques and devices. Pov, images, symbols, motifs, language, diction, tone, beginning/middle/ending, setting, paragraphs, metaphor, style.

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