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Tables of Contents for Wise Economies
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction Brevity, Storytelling, and the Short Story
1
16
Part One Getting the Point Storytelling Frames and Narrative Purpose in Romantic Tales
17
60
Prologue
17
10
One Washington Irving Intertextual Framing and Oral Tradition in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
27
16
Two Nathaniel Hawthorne Extratextual Framing and Sermonic Rhetoric in "Wakefield"
43
14
Three Herman Melville Intratextual Framing in "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
57
20
Epilogue
71
6
Part Two Making it Real Direct Addresses, Gender, and the Realist Short Story
77
60
Prologue
77
10
Four Rebecca Harding Davis "Life in the Iron Mills" and the Cross-Gendered Text
87
14
Five Sarah Orne Jewett "A White Heron" and the Power of Suggestion
101
16
Six Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Yellow Wallpaper," Storytelling, and "Getting Real"
117
20
Epilogue
133
4
Part Three Cultivating Voices Attributional Devices and Authorial Styles in Modernist Short Stories
137
68
Prologue
137
8
Seven Gertrude Stein Indirect Speech in "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene"
145
14
Eight Ernest Hemingway Repetition, Stylization, and Dialogue in "Hills Like White Elephants"
159
14
Nine Djuna Barnes Free Indirect Discourse and Parody in "Run Girls, Run"
173
14
Ten Richard Wright Free Indirect Discourse, Dialect, and Empathy in "Almos' a Man"
187
18
Epilogue
201
4
Part Four The Talking Heads Time, Tense, and the Minimalist Short Story
205
40
Prologue
205
12
Eleven Bobbie Ann Mason "Shiloh" and the Insides of History
217
14
Twelve Raymond Carver Tense, Telling, Memory
231
14
Epilogue
245
2
Postscript: Whither Brevity?
247
6
Notes
253
34
Bibliography
287
21
Index
308