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Charles Raymond Barrett

Short Story Writing / A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story

  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    The short story and the novel have many radical differences; but in material, treatment and aim they are much the same, and the same general training is necessary for both.
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    excellent school for the novelist.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    This book will confine itself to the English-American short story.
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    work of Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe.
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    narrative poems, allegorical tales, and mouth-to-mouth traditions
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    narratives of Homer and the tales of the first books of the Bible may be considered as the first examples;
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    The short story was first recognized as a distinct class of literature in 1842, when Poe's criticism of Hawthorne[1] called attention to the new form of fiction.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    But my greatest obligation is to a course in "The Art of the Short Story"—the first university course ever offered in that subject—conducted at the University of Chicago in 1896 by Dr. E. H. Lewis.

    C. R. B.

    Chicago, August 1, 1900.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    published in current periodicals,
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    but to my mind that is too slight, too theoretical, and too enamored of the artificial French school to be of practical value to the amateur.
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