Development of Short Story as a Literary Genre
Abstract
We can all recognize a short story when we see or read one. But when it comes to defining a short
story, problems arise one after the other. There are so many different kinds of short stories, that no single
definition would cover all. So, the best way is, to define the sort story in the most general terms. The short
story has never been adequately defined, even the short story writers disagree with regards to its native and
scope. Each one has tried to define it in his own way. H. E. Bates say that a short story has ‘’ something of
the infinitely and indefinite variable nature of a cloud.’’
H. G. Wells in his definition of the short story emphasizes its brevity and calls it, ‘’ The jolly art of
making something very bright and moving; it may be horrible or pathetic or funny or profoundly
illuminating, having only this essential, that it should take five to ten minutes to read aloud.’’
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