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title: 'The American Short Story'
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authors:
- 'Charles Alphonso Smith'
date: 1912-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Literature'
- 'History (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 25'
- 'Ecclesiastes 12'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/smith-1912-the-american-short-story
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# The American Short Story

Lecture tracing the development and technique of the American short story—unity, compression, and Poe's 'single effect'—discusses Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, and Bret Harte.

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