ENG215H1 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Trickster, Wheat, Shapeshifting

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ENG215 Canadian Short Story
Lecture 1
Factors that cause short stories to be deemed a minor art form
Economic factor that short does not sell well
Considered an apprentice form before starting novel leads to idea that short story is
minor art form
Edgar Allan Poe 8s essa The philosoph of Copositio American writer and literary
critic Poe defined what he called the prose tale as a narrative which can be read at one sitting
of half hour to two hours and is limited to a certain unique or single effect to which every detail
is subordinate.
This early definition of short story can be critiqued
Timespan is random and not legitimate. It can be longer or shorter
Short story can have dynamic meanings, not single effect.
Alie Muro’s short stories are longer (can be 70 pages)
His definition suggest that short story has to follow that model and emphasizes
limitations. It says what story should do and not what it can do.
Poe’s defiitio is the first ad had lastig ifluee o hat literar ritics and readers
thought of the genre
Theories of short story served to produce a model of the genre that stressed:
Concentration on a single character and event
Compression of narrative into a single revealing segment
Necessary culminating and unifying moment the epiphany
“oeoe else’s defiitio - Genre is capable of anything. Only definite characteristic is that it is
short. This genre is a reading experience that is exciting and transformative.
Elizabeth Bowen 1936. Faber Book of Modern Short Stories introduction.
The short story could achieve great richness, complexity, or multiplicity as a result of,
rather than in spite of, its brevity.
Shortness is a positive quality.
Short story is Art of saying less but meaning more.
AVOID thinking short story is simple, limited, generic/standard model.
Look for genre capability to accommodate, allow for movement, expansion, scope, generosity,
pluralism.
Writers take this art form and adapt to cultural needs.
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Noah Richler: A Literary Atlas to Canada
Importance of reading.
Ardet elief is that oels ad fitio are ot hisial tets outside of preset da
and concerns. They are incendiary things born out of a particular time and place, a
mirror to ourselves, and politics. The art is ot a idulgee.
Crummey lived in Newfoundland. He claims he is a typical person. His writing exposed more
about himself than what he usually communicates.
Flash fiction very short. Just over 300 words but convey a lot.
B R E AD
Michael Crummey
From: Hard Light. London, Ont.: Brick Books, 1998.
I was twenty years younger than my husband, his first wife dead in childbirth. I agreed to marry him because
he was a good fisherman, because he had his own house and he was willing to take in my mother and father
when the time came. It was a practical decision and he wasn't expecting more than that. Two people should
never say the word love before they've eaten a sack of flour together, he told me.
The night we married I hiked my night dress around my thighs and shut my eyes so tight I saw stars.
Afterwards I went outside and I was sick, throwing up over the fence. He came out the door behind me and
put his hand to the small of my back. It happens your first time, he said. It'll get better.
I got pregnant right away and then he left for the Labrador. I dug the garden, watched my belly swell like
a seed in water. Baked bread, bottled bakeapples for the winter store, cut the meadow grass for hay. After a
month alone I even started to miss him a little.
The baby came early, a few weeks after my husband arrived home in September. We had the minister up
to the house for the baptism the next day, Angus Maclean we named him, and we buried him in the graveyard
in the Burnt Woods a week later. I remember he started crying at the table the morning of the funeral and I
held his face against my belly until he stopped, his head in my hands about the size of the child before it was
born. I don't know why sharing a grief will make you love someone.
I was pregnant again by November. I baked a loaf of bread and brought it to the table, still steaming from
the oven. Set it on his plate whole and stood there looking at him. That's the last of that bag of flour, I told
him. And he smiled at me and didn't say anything for a minute. I'll pick up another today, he said finally.
And that's how we left it for a while.
Huge expansive time within a couple of sentences. Contraction and expansion of time.
Anticipation of a future for this couple beyond the boundaries of the page. Turn flour into
bread and live for long time get a sense of time.
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Factors that cause short stories to be deemed a minor art form: economic factor that short does not sell well, considered an apprentice form before starting novel leads to idea that short story is minor art form. It says what story should do and not what it can do: poe"s defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374) is the first a(cid:374)d had lasti(cid:374)g i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e o(cid:374) (cid:449)hat literar(cid:455) (cid:272)ritics and readers thought of the genre. Theories of short story served to produce a model of the genre that stressed: concentration on a single character and event, compression of narrative into a single revealing segment, necessary culminating and unifying moment the epiphany. O(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e else"s defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374) - genre is capable of anything. Only definite characteristic is that it is short. This genre is a reading experience that is exciting and transformative. Avoid thinking short story is simple, limited, generic/standard model. Look for genre capability to accommodate, allow for movement, expansion, scope, generosity, pluralism.

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