SHORT PROSE GENRES IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE
Keywords:
American literature, twentieth century, short story, novella, modernism, minimalism, postmodernism, story cycleAbstract
This thesis analyzes the developmental tendencies of short prose in twentieth-century American literature. It examines the transformation of the short story, novella, story cycle, and experimental short fiction within the frameworks of modernism, Southern Gothic, minimalism, and postmodernism. The study demonstrates that magazine culture, compact composition, and the need to represent fragmented modern experience were important factors in the development of these genres.
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