Modern Short Stories: The Uses of Imagination

By Arthur Mizener

Book Overview

In any reasonably definable sense, the short story has existed as a literary form for less than a hundred years, and the significant differences among short stories are not historical differences but differences in mode, in the attitudes toward life which govern an author's sense of reality and the techniques of expression these attitudes dictate.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393950255
• ISBN13: 9780393950250
• Release Date: November 1979
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 896 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.1" x 8.4"