Strange meetings: Moments of recognition and identification in short stories.

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McCrory, Moy 2017. Strange meetings: Moments of recognition and identification in short stories. in: International Conference on the Short Story..
AuthorsMcCrory, Moy
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In examining how both reader and writer interpret the ‘new’ through their previous understandings this questions how we use those recognition. Do we reinforce the idea of the self & the familiar or do we challenge this familiarity and reconsider how we approach the ‘other’ in our reading and authorship as writers? In re positioning the other we can consider both Orientalism and the different in western short fictions and early short tales as a reflection of the observer rather than the observed.

In examining how both reader and writer interpret the ‘new’ through their previous understandings this questions how we use those recognition. Do we reinforce the idea of the self & the familiar or do we challenge this familiarity and reconsider how we approach the ‘other’ in our reading and authorship as writers? In re positioning the other we can consider both Orientalism and the different in western short fictions and early short tales as a reflection of the observer rather than the observed.

KeywordsShort story; Writing technique; Fiction; Text world theory
Year2017
PublisherInternational Conference on the Short Story.
ISBN9781533577801
Web address (URL)http://hdl.handle.net/10545/622949
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