29/05/2019
Veranstaltungsankündigung
Greifswald University’s North American Studies and the Greifswald Friends of North America cordially invite you to the guest lecture and reading by Professor Michael Cocchiarale (Widener University, USA):
How Little Is TOO Much?
Flash Fiction, Microfiction, Hint Fiction, and Almost Everything Between and Beyond
The lecture and reading will take place on June 5, 2019 at 7:00 pm in room 1.29, E.-Lohmeyer-Platz 3. For nearly the past thirty years, flash fiction has been enjoying a spectacular renaissance. Comprised of no more than 1000 words, these works have been collected in numerous anthologies and published in an ever-growing number of print and online journals. Some of these extremely brief fictions are conventional, with the familiar attributes and trajectory of a short story. Others are highly experimental, appropriating forms, delving into the fantastical and absurd, or eschewing expectations about characters and closure in order to tell old stories in startling new ways. During this renaissance, shorter and more intriguing subgenres have proliferated—microfictions, hint fiction, and twitter fiction, among others. This lecture will provide an overview of flash fiction and closely related works, highlighting key examples that test the limits of narrative--and perhaps the patience of the reader as well.
