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What is a Short Story Besides Short? Questioning Minds in Search of Understanding Short Fiction

Gabriela Tucan
Gabriela Tucan
   | May 01, 2014
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Published Online: May 01, 2014
Page range: 144 - 151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0018
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The paper seeks to identify the cluster of essential features for a working definition of the short story, in an attempt to establish short fiction as a fully independent literary genre. I further explore the fundamental mode of thinking and of imagination generated by reading short fiction.

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Linguistics and Semiotics, Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines, Linguistics, other, Germanic Languages, English
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