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1 juin 2015
- handle: 10670/1.ljjnhq
- isbn: 9781909254756
- eisbn: 9782821854079
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Florence Goyet, « 3. Ending with a Twist », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.ljjnhq
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A whole body of contemporary criticism is dedicated to the analysis and appraisal of short stories’ endings. A story’s conclusion has often been thought of as an effective way of grasping the genre’s characteristic features, as well as to understand the ways that readers experience the genre. Influenced by the seminal reflexions of Frank Kermode in The Sense of an Ending, critics like John Gerlach, Per Winther, David Sheridan and Susan Lohafer have all argued that endings were of key importan...