TY - BOOK AU - Miłosz Wojtyna PY - 2015 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 2364-2882 SN - 9783653052251 TI - The Ordinary and the Short Story T2 - Short Fiction of T.F. Powys and V.S. Pritchett DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-05225-1 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049275 N2 - This formalist-narratological study of T.F. Powys’ and V.S. Pritchett’s short fiction reestablishes both authors as important contributors to the history of the short story form. It also discusses how writers, who did not belong to the modernist avant-garde innovation, address the problems of the short story form in the twentieth century. The study takes a close look at the uses of the ordinary and analyses character, setting, and event presentation, narrators, audiences, narrativity, eventfulness, causality, and narrative rhetoric. It presents two kinds of short fiction and two kinds of the ordinary: the ecstatic one, focused on violations of norm, and the static kind that reassures its patterns. KW - Narrativity, Defamiliarization, Characterization, Non-Canonicity LA - English ER -