Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction

Dan Shen is Changjiang Professor of English Language and Literature at Peking University, China. She is on the advisory or editorial boards of the American journals Style and Narrative, the British Language and Literature, and the European JLS: Journal of Literary Semantics, as well as being a consultant editor of Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory.

Foreword J. Hillis Miller Introduction. Part 1: Style and Covert Progression in American Short Fiction 1. Style, Unreliability, and Hidden Dramatic Irony: Poe’s "The Tell-Tale Heart" 2. Style and Unobtrusive Emasculating Satire: Crane’s "An Episode of War" 3. Style, Surprise Ending, and Covert Mythologization: Chopin’s "Désirée’s Baby" Part II: Style and Different Forms of Covert Progression in Mansfield's Fiction 4. Style, Changing Distance, and Doubling Irony: Mansfield’s "Revelations" 5. Style and Concealed Social Protest: Mansfield’s "The Singing Lesson" 6. Style and Secretly Unifying the Digressive: Mansfield’s "The Fly." Coda.