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fiction: see novel novel, in modern literary usage, a sustained work of prose fiction a volume or more in length. It is distinguished from the short story and the fictional sketch, which are necessarily brief. ..... Click the link for more information. ; short story short story, brief prose fiction. The term covers a wide variety of narratives—from stories in which the main focus is on the course of events to studies of character, from the "short short" story to extended and complex narratives such as Thomas Mann's ..... Click the link for more information. . fiction 1. literary works invented by the imagination, such as novels or short stories 2. Law something assumed to be true for the sake of convenience, though probably false |
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Aguilar Cruz has put it, "Humorous stories about plausible people and situations, as far removed from O'Henry and Octavus Roy Cohen as the real laughter of our fathers is from Carlos Bulosan, are still being written by such before-the-war fictionists as Consorcio Borje, D. Henry Louis Gates, likewise, in Figures in Black, credits Ellison with defining a new direction in black American fiction, freeing it from a narrowly mimetic tradition and providing contemporary black fictionists with "a new mode of seeing" and a "new manner of representation" (246). Another grievance against the family current among fictionists then was that it had wrongly moralized, even sanctified, itself to cover up the carnality at its core. |
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