{"first_publish_date": "November 15, 2007", "key": "/works/OL1852576W", "title": "The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL221727A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [2921118], "subjects": ["Realism in literature", "Modern Literature", "History and criticism", "Short story", "Literature, modern, history and criticism, 19th century", "Literature, modern, history and criticism, 20th century", "Criticism and interpretation"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Taking an aesthetic approach to the genre of realist short fiction, Kerry McSweeney clusters the work of five masters - Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver - to offer a poetics of the form for students and scholars. At the center of this argument is the notion that the realist short story is a glimpse - powerful and tightly focused - into a world that the writer must precisely craft and in which the reader must fully invest.\"--Jacket."}, "latest_revision": 8, "revision": 8, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:27:57.908409"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-01-29T07:46:10.377319"}}