英语词汇short story的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

short story. The name, though not the form, was invented in the U.S., its first mention in Harper’s Magazine in 1887 in the form of “short story writing.” A short story, briefly, is usually a prose work of fiction under 10,000 words, “differing from a novel in being shorter and less elaborate,” according to the O.E.D. A short short story is even more condensed, perhaps of up to 1,200 words. Edgar Allan Poe is regarded as the origina- tor of the modern short story, which Americans have excelled in. An old joke has an English teacher telling a class that the five requisites to a good short story are “brevity, a religious ref- erence, a sexual reference, some association with society and an illustration of modesty.” The next day a student handed in a story that read in full: “My God!” said the duchess. ‘Take your hand off my knee!’ ”

词汇	short story
词源	short story. The name, though not the form, was invented in the U.S., its first mention in Harper’s Magazine in 1887 in the form of “short story writing.” A short story, briefly, is usually a prose work of fiction under 10,000 words, “differing from a novel in being shorter and less elaborate,” according to the O.E.D. A short short story is even more condensed, perhaps of up to 1,200 words. Edgar Allan Poe is regarded as the origina- tor of the modern short story, which Americans have excelled in. An old joke has an English teacher telling a class that the five requisites to a good short story are “brevity, a religious ref- erence, a sexual reference, some association with society and an illustration of modesty.” The next day a student handed in a story that read in full: “My God!” said the duchess. ‘Take your hand off my knee!’ ”
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