TY - BOOK AU - Iftekharuddin,Farhat ED - Society for the Study of the Short Story. TI - The postmodern short story: forms and issues SN - 0313323755 (alk. paper) SN - 07389345 AV - PN 3373 P697.2003 U1 - 809.3/1 21 PY - 2003/// CY - Westport, CT PB - Praeger KW - Cuento KW - Cuentos KW - Short stories, English KW - History and criticism KW - Cuentos ingleses - KW - Historia y crítica KW - Short stories, American KW - Cuentos norteamericanos KW - English fiction KW - 20th century KW - Novela inglesa - KW - Siglo XX KW - American fiction KW - Novela norteamericana - N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [267]-269) e índice; Introduction; Farhat Iftekharrudin --; FICTIONAL NONFICTION AND NONFICTIONAL FICTION --; Playing it straight by making it up: imaginative leaps in the personal essay; Marilyn Abildskov --; Facts and fancy: the "nonfiction short story"; Michele Morano --; Historiografiction: the fictionalization of history in the short story; Michael Orlofsky --; WOMEN'S IDENTITY IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD --; Closure in Sandra Cisneros's "Women hollering creek"; Rose Marie Cutting --; The silence of the bears: Leslie Marmon Silko's writerly act of spiritual storytelling; Brewster E. Fitz --; The feminine consciousness as nightmare in the short-short stories of Joyce Carol Oates; Wayne Stengel --; Postmodernism in women's short story cycles: Lorrie Moore's Anagrams; Karen Weekes --; CONTEMPORARY MEN AND THEIR STORIES --; Crippled by the truth: oracular pronouncements, titillating titles, and the postmodern ethic; Richard E. Lee --; Male paradigms in Thom Jones and Tom Paine; Paul R. Lilly --; Eloquence and plot in Denis Johnson's Jesus' son: the merging of premodern and modernist narrative; J. Scott Farrin --; Ardor with a silent H: submitting to the ache of love in Edmund White's "Skinned alive"; Raymond-Jean Frontain --; The genre which is not one: Hemingway's In our time, difference, and the short story cycle; Peter Donahue --; DEATH AS IMAGE AND THEME IN SHORT FICTION --; Short stories to film: Richard Ford's "Great falls" and "Children" as Bright angel; Larry D. Griffin --; Melancholia and the death motif in Richard Brautigan's short fiction; Brenda M. Palo --; Perhaps she had not told him all the story: the disnarrated in James Joyce's Dubliners; Howard Lindholm --; POSTMODERN NARRATIVE AROUND THE WORLD --; Multiple narrative frames in R.R.R. Dhlomo's "Juwawa"; Christine Loflin --; Beyond genre: Canadian surrealist short fiction; Allan Weiss --; Postmodernism in the American short story: some ER -