Publisher's Synopsis
The Teller and the Tale: Aspects of the Short Story consists of the proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Comparative Literature Symposium held 23 to 25 January 1980. It is a collection of essays grouped into categories of (1) various scholarly approaches to the general topic of the short story, (2) an editor's view of the nature of short story criticism, and (3) short story writers' observations about the nature of the genre.
