Abstract

BRESCIA, Pablo. Shape-shifting: New (and Old) Short Story Theories. perifrasis. rev.lit.teor.crit. [online]. 2014, vol.5, n.9, pp.65-78. ISSN 2145-8987.

The Golden Age of the Latin American short story took place between 1945 and 1965. During that same time, a more secret process took place: the development of the field of shory theory. This article offers a historiography of this process in order to, on the one hand, study the elements proposed by writers as constitutive of the short story and, on the other, take a look at more contemporary approaches. The objective is to analyze the friction between two tendencies at the heart of the genre, according to writers: its experimental nature and its spherical, or self-enclosed, form.

Keywords : short story; theory, critics; writers; canon formation.

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