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Article: Minimalism and the short story.
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- Studies in Short Fiction
- Article date:
- September 22, 1996
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In literary analysis the term "minimalism" refers not only to a certain understated style of fiction writing, but also to an assembly of charac-teristics that are particularly ascribed to the short story, for both minimalism and the short story are governed by an aesthetic of exclusion. Generally in such texts, distraction and clutter are stripped from the depiction of human commerce until the reader encounters the whole of society reflected in slivers of individual experience. Here, the unstated is present as a cogent force. Amy Hempel--who, much to her chagrin, is often identified as a "minimalist"--describes it this way: "A lot of times what's not reported in your ...
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Article: Raymond Carver. (book reviews)
Studies in Short Fiction;
January 1, 1997 ;
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...RAYMOND CARVER by Adam Meyer. Twayne ... 22.95 Adam Meyer's Raymond Carver, the fifth book of criticism ... heading "The Miasma of Minimalism," Meyer takes a decidedly negative view of minimalism. Meyer is at pains to remind ...
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