Types of Prose Narratives: A Text-Book for the Story Writer

This large division of narratives of imaginary events is somewhat hard to name briefly, though it is definitely enough marked off as a distinct class when we consider the tone,...

In the group "entertaining" we may class all those narratives that are told simply for the purpose of pleasing the reader and passing away his time for him--tales of probable ad...

The short-story as a production of an artist conscious of rules and striving for definite effects within limitations is a thing of the nineteenth century. Only gradually have wr...

The traditional types--myth, legend, fairy tale, and nursery saga--are designated as primitive-religious in order to express the fact that they grew up in response to the revere...

The second large division heading explains itself. In an atmosphere of facts all the true narrative types stand. Whether these types are used as retainers of truth only is anoth...

In its general sense narrative history includes all true-story forms, even incidents and eye-witness accounts. But annals and chronicles may be grouped by themselves on the basi...

Within the group of personal accounts come the more-or-less extended records of the sayings and doings of men and women in their most acute individuality. It is intimate, detail...

The Instructive Group is composed of those narratives whose chief purpose is to inform the reader of certain conditions and problems of which he ought to take intelligent accoun...

We now turn to a set of stories with a new basis, the symbolic-didactic narratives: fables, parables, and allegories. By the word "symbolic" we shall understand that the stories...

_Students' Themes_-- Cafre and the Fisherman's Wife Benito Ebuen 57 The Friendship of an Asuang and a Duende Emanuel Baja 58 A Tianac Frightens Juan Santiago Ochoa 61 The Black...

I. MYTH--Classes of myths: primitive-tribal and artificial-literary--Myth age not a past epoch--How traditional myths are collected--How original myths are composed--Difference...

I. FABLE--Æsop--Other early fabulists--"Hitopadesa" and "Panchatantra"--"Reynard the Fox" and bestiaries--Some more writers of fables--Working definition--Classes of fables: rat...