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Reader as consumer: the magazine short story
- Source: Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, Volume 1, Issue 1, Jan 2011, p. 71 - 84
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- 01 Jan 2011
Abstract
This article considers the influence of the emerging mass magazines at the turn of the nineteenth into the twentieth century on the poetics and reception of the short story. The author outlines the commodification of the short story within its magazine frame during this period and argues that much of the genre's critical marginalization can be traced to this era in its material history, as can the form's continued popularity with both writers and the reading public.
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