REVIEW QUESTIONS

1. Distinguish between the novel, the novelette, and the short-story.

2. Define the short-story.

3. Explain the contributions made by Edgar Allan Poe and Brander Matthews to the consciousness of the short-story as a special form of art.

4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the short-story as compared with the novel?

5. Is realism possible in the short-story? If not, why not?

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SUGGESTED READING

Edgar Allan Poe: Review of Hawthorne’s “Tales.”

Brander Matthews: “The Philosophy of the Short-Story.”