A research project was initiated in 2001 at the University of Oslo to combine insights of Nordic and Anglo-American scholars of short fiction. This first publication to emerge from the effort
contains 19 essays by North American and Nordic scholars on such aspects as why short stories are essential and why they are seldom read, closure and preclosure as narrative grid in short story
analysis, Danish short shorts in the 1990s and the Jena-Romantic fragments, and store porch tales from Yknapatawpha County. Annotation 穢2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
