RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Aspectos teórico-críticos del relato breve: Poe, Bierce y la short story norteamericana del siglo XIX A1 Santos Vila, Sonia A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid K1 Filología Inglesa AB Our essay deals with a literary genre, the short story, and we approach the short story from Literary Theory and Literary Criticism. On the one hand, we study its historical development, its definition, its essential characteristics and, also, other genres close to it, such as sketch, yam, Marchen, Jable, parable or novella. On the other hand, we analyse the critical theory of Edgar Allan Poe and Ambrose Bierce about the short story in their essays "The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale" by Poe, and "The Short Story" by Bierce. Both writers agree with the fact that the most important quality of the short story is the unity of effect on the reader. That is an idea that remains still alive at present among authors and critics. SN 0210-9689 YR 2002 FD 2002 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17279 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17279 LA spa NO ES: Revista de filología inglesa, 2002, N.24, pags.195-212 DS UVaDOC RD 19-abr-2024