| Description |
x,173 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Megan Giddings -- Introduction: Going Long. Going Short. -- Thirteen Ways of Looking at Flash Fiction -- The Freedom of Constraints -- Telling a Story in Fragments -- The Erotics of Brevity -- Context: How Much Is Enough? -- The Fullness of Omission -- White Spaces -- Plotting in Miniature (and with a Slant) -- Writing Characters in Fleeting Profile -- Writing for the Essence -- The Sounds of Silence -- Found Objects, Found Stories -- Story as Collage -- Going Small to Go Big: The Art of Expansion -- Going Small to Go Small -- The Poetics of Brevity -- Is It Poetry or Prose? -- How Short Can You Go? -- The Mot Juste -- The Sentence -- The Paragraph -- The Title -- The "Flash Novel" and the Novella -- Endings -- Acknowledgments -- Postscript -- One More Postscript -- Flashings: Quotes on Writing Short -- Appendix: Gleanings from The Art of Brevity. |
| Subject |
Short story -- Authorship.
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Authorship.
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Short story. (OCoLC)fst01117446
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| Added Author |
Giddings, Megan, writer of foreword.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Faulkner, Grant. Art of brevity Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2023 9780826364746 (DLC) 2022027188 |
| ISBN |
9780826364739 paperback |
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082636473X paperback |
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9780826364746 electronic book |
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