The Modern Short Story: a study of the form: its plot, structure, development and other requirements. By
Lucy Lilian Notestein, (1914). The object of this book is to state as
clearly as may be, just what the modern Short-story is, and to enumerate
and expound the principles underlying the most typical examples of this
distinctive kind of fiction. An experience of several years as a
teacher of college classes in Short-story writing convinced me that in
the case of my own students I could secure better results by the use of a
text- book different in type from any of those available. Some of the
existing works on the subject treat in a borate detail the development
of the Short-story from the time of the narratives of the Egyptian
papyri; others confuse the student by discussing at too great length
many related forms of merely short fiction. In regard to other more or
less admirable texts, I have only to say that my method differs from
that laid down in any of them. In teaching the writing of the
Short-story, I have thought it best to hold to the strictly* modern
form, and to leave the history of its evolution as matter for a separate
and distinct course of study. I soon became convinced that I should
have to make a restatement of what is known about the Short-story in the
order which experience taught me was most serviceable from the
teacher's point of view.
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