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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1700s | writers focus on novels |
| novelle | combined elements of folk tale & realism by focusing on a marvelous happening, that is at the same time, conceivable. |
| Germany | In a novelle, developed characters are presented and brought into a conflict that reveals their characteristics. |
| France (1800s) | Moved from philosophical short fiction and returned to romantic folktale. Focused on subjective inner world (dreams, hallucinations) and characters' reactions to events, rather than events themselves. |
| Romantics | emphasized the subjectivity of the teller; said that value exists in the external world, but only b/c it first existed in the teller's mind. |
| America | Washington Irvine's "Rip Van Winkle"; focused on tone & teller of folkloric tale. Could be argued that the short story started in Irvine's sketchbook. |
| Poe | horror stories driven by characters' emotions & though processes. Attempted to convey a single impression of a mood, emotion, or situation to a reader. |
| Hawthorne | Built short story on active relationship between character & circumstances; moral situation at the center; ambiguity comes from combining old, allegorical conventions w/ new,realistic techniques. |
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