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Prominent short story awards such as The Sunday Times Short Story Award, the BBC National Short Story Award, [37] the Royal Society of Literature's V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize, [38] The London Magazine Short Story Prize, [39] the Pin Drop Studio Short Story Award and many others attract hundreds of entries each year. Published and non ...
The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pieces.
Literature can be described as all of the following: Communication – activity of conveying information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space.
A dilemma in defining the "short story" as a literary form is how to, or whether one should, distinguish it from any short narrative and its contested origin, [135] that include the Bible, and Edgar Allan Poe. [136]
Short story: the boundary between a long short story and a novella is vague, [36] although a short story commonly comprises fewer than 7,500 words Novella: typically, 17,500 to 40,000 words in length; examples include Robert Louis Stevenson 's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) or Joseph Conrad 's Heart of Darkness (1899) [ 37 ]
The term "novel" originates from the production of short stories, or novella that remained part of a European oral culture of storytelling into the late 19th century. Fairy tales, jokes, and humorous stories designed to make a point in a conversation, and the exemplum a priest would insert in a sermon belong into this tradition.
Post-modern literature rejects the conventional “novel” structure and notions of a chronological plot and character development. [10] Techniques in postmodern literature such as minimalistic, “slice of life” stories and fragmentation became popular, which are also key characteristics of vignettes. [10]
In the 1920s flash fiction was referred to as the "short short story" and was associated with Cosmopolitan magazine, and in the 1930s, collected in anthologies such as The American Short Short Story. [8] Somerset Maugham was a notable proponent, with his Cosmopolitans: Very Short Stories (1936) being an early collection.