Seismic Brevity: The Case for Six-Word Stories
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https://doi.org/10.31921/microtextualidades.n12a3Keywords:
microfiction, six-word stories, seísmos, brevity on line, hiperpbrevityAbstract
Echoing David Fishelov's proposal to postulate the six-word story as a literary genre, this paper explores the merits of such supposed autonomy, as well as the challenges inherent to this form. Following the designation used by Javier Puche in Seísmos: Cuentos d seis palabras, this work uses the term seísmo to designate these hyperbrief stories. The relationship of this form with its practice in cyberspace in languages besides Spanish and English is also discussed.
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