ENGL 2P56 Lecture Notes - Metafiction, Nadine Gordimer, Sheila Heti
15 Sep 2013
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A story is told from someone"s perspective (or point of view) Engages readers viscerally (to smaller or greater extent) How we empathize and engage with characters. To make the reader think and feel. And does so to some purpose or effect or end (for example, work at rhetoric) Draw us into a parallel world that we become immersed in. There must be enough detail so that the reader can imagine it. The reader feels or sees themselves there . Feel compelled to linger in or revisit. On focus on structure and mechanics (ways of telling) In priority of thought more than feeling; or vice versa. Because there isn"t enough space to sufficiently create a character or character development. Its more useful to think of a short story as fiction that has been polished and removed of excess. Charles may says we cannot define a short story in term of shortness. Short stories are automatically neatly structured and polished in execution.
