ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kate Chopin, Alice Munro, Dollhouse
2 Nov 2017
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Short stories and novels are written in continuous prose. There is an idea of something singular, independent as opposed to a series of events that become episodes in a longer unfolding. Edgar allen poe: a story you can read in one sitting > short story. There is an efficiency in short stories; poems are concentrated in images, rhyme. similarly, There is a sense of unfolding that has its own authority > direction of narrative. Poetry is like a painting, looking at everything at once and linking together. novels have an. A short story is like middle ground between painting and novel > music. Poetry is to prose to what short fiction is to the novel. Short stories are like a house - alice munro. Everything held together in some kind of unity (3d molecule)
