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Frank O' Connor's The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story (1963) has since its publication remained a genus loci in short story criticism. Defining the genre in terms of its affinities with what he calls ”the submerged population”, O' Connor offers a poignant critique of the works of some of the most respected 20th-century writers such as Katherine Mansfield, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, and Isaac Babel. Here, O' Connor opposes modernism with a Gogolian realism and openly declares his belief in the value of literature as a medium for moral teaching. Such an approach to short fiction, with its stress on the genre's relationship with ideology, strikes one at first sight as nothing but a humanist or a Marxist. But the book quietly moves beyond class-based analyses. In many ways, O' Connor's fervent belief in the short story's special relevance to nations that have experienced colonization had placed him safely among the first postcolonial thinkers b
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Frank O' Connor's The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story (1963) has since its publication remained a genus loci in short story criticism. Defining the genre in terms of its affinities with what he calls ”the submerged population”, O' Connor offers a poignant critique of the works of some of the most respected 20th-century writers such as Katherine Mansfield, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, and Isaac Babel. Here, O' Connor opposes modernism with a Gogolian realism and openly declares his belief in the value of literature as a medium for moral teaching. Such an approach to short fiction, with its stress on the genre's relationship with ideology, strikes one at first sight as nothing but a humanist or a Marxist. But the book quietly moves beyond class-based analyses. In many ways, O' Connor's fervent belief in the short story's special relevance to nations that have experienced colonization had placed him safely among the first postcolonial thinkers b
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