the short story literary genre fictional narrative prose
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THE SHORT STORY
Literary genre Fictional narrative prose
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ORIGINS
EARLY PRECURSORS: Anecdotes Parables Fables Folk tales Fairy tales
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Roots in oral tradition Emerged as a genre in the early 19th
century Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of the
Grotesque and Arabesque (1839) and Nathaniel Hawthorne’sTwice Told Tales (1842) were early collections of short stories
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The growth of print magazines and journals in the late 19th century created a strong market demand for short fiction between 3,000 and 15,000 words in length, esp. in the United States
American literary form (arguable)
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CHARACTERISTICS Single incident Single plot Single setting Few characters A short period of time Character experiences an
epiphany
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May or may not follow dramatic structure
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Exact characteristics depend on author
Realistic Read in one sitting No less than 1000 words No longer than 20,000 words