https://padlet.com/jen_bouchard/fictiongenres Give an overview of at least 3 fiction genres with examples of authors or texts. Use images and hotlinks to enhance the information. Overall word count should be approx. 1000. Be sure to cite your sources using MLA style. en-us 2018-08-29 15:14:06 UTC 2020-10-27 18:06:26 UTC hello@padlet.com jen_bouchard https://padlet.com/jen_bouchard/fictiongenres/wish/276265923 (note: This is an example of one fiction genre, so your final Padlet will have at least 3 entries like this one.)

A short story is defined as a work of fiction between 1000-20,000 words (Mays 32). Typically, authors craft short stories so that they can be read in one sitting, as opposed to a novel that is meant to be read over time (Mays 33). The short story developed in the mid-1800s, and has evolved as a literary form over the past century and a half.

As Robert Shapard explains, "Short‐story deals with a single character, a single event, a single emotion, or the series of emotions called forth by a single situation. (…) The Short‐story is the single effect, complete and self‐contained, while the Novel is of necessity broken into a series of episodes. Thus the Short‐story has, what the Novel cannot have, the effect of 'totality,' as Poe called it, the unity of impression" (73).   

Some well-known contemporary short story writers include: Ha Jin, Louise Erdrich, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Diaz, Tobias Woolf, and Zadie Smith.

Sources:
Mays, Kelly J. The Norton Introduction to Literature. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2017.

Shapard, R.; Thomas, J. Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1986. ]]> 2018-08-29 15:23:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jen_bouchard/fictiongenres/wish/276265923