Short prose
Short prose is a generic term for various kinds of very short fictional prose; short prose may or may not be narrative.[1] Short prose pieces are considerably shorter than a short story, i.e., usually less than c. 1,000 words. Because of their small size, short prose pieces can attain high levels of lexical density and may thereby resemble prose poems, but the focus in short prose is less on language itself (and thus on rhythm, metre, or other phonological effects) than on the rapid presentation of a situation.
A piece of short prose may contain drama, but it normally differs from a vignette in that it has no necessary associations with theatre or character. Because plot is peripheral to, or nonexistent in, short prose, a short prose piece differs from a sketch story in that it does not necessarily invite the reader to imagine what came before or what follows after. Finally, because a piece of short prose does not necessarily have characters, conflict, or resolution, it usually differs from the short short story, flash fiction and microfiction as these are usually defined.
Writers who have favoured the use of short prose include Fyodor Sologub, Daniil Kharms (Случаи), Dezső Kosztolányi, István Örkény (Egyperces novellák), Samuel Beckett (Fizzles), Francis Ponge (Le parti pris des choses), David Eggers (Short Short Stories), and Eduardo Berti (La Vie Impossible).
Further reading
- Cheuse, Alan (2010). "The Form Read Round the World: American Short Fiction and World Story". World Literature Today. 84 (5): 25–27.
- Killick, Tim (2008). British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-8212-7. OCLC 323471970. Search this book on
- Nagy, Judit (2011-10-03). "Metaphors of Weather in Canadian Short Prose". Brno Studies in English. 37 (1): 97–111. doi:10.5817/BSE2011-1-6. ISSN 0524-6881.
- Newman, Donald J. (2016), Head, Dominic, ed., "Short Prose Narratives of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries", The Cambridge History of the English Short Story, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 32–48, doi:10.1017/9781316711712.003, ISBN 978-1-107-16742-1, retrieved 2021-04-13
References
- ↑ Jerke, Tina (Gießen) (2015-06-03). "Short prose". Brill's New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 8 : The Reception of Antiquity in Renaissance Humanism.
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