The Short Story: An Introduction

Paul March-Russell

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2009

The Short Story

An Introduction

Paul March-Russell

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748632145

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About this book

Emphasises the importance of the short story to an understanding of modern fiction

In twenty succinct chapters, the study paints a complete portrait of the short story - its history, culture, aesthetics and economics. European innovators such as Chekhov, Flaubert and Kafka are compared to Irish, New Zealand and British practitioners such as Joyce, Mansfield and Carter as well as writers in the American tradition, from Hawthorne and Poe to Barthelme and Carver.

Fresh attention is paid to experimental, postcolonial and popular fiction alongside developments in Anglo-American, Hispanic and European literature. Critical approaches to the short story are debated and reassessed, while discussion of the short story is related to contemporary critical theory. In what promises to be essential reading for students and academics, the study sets out to prove that the short story remains vital to the emerging culture of the twenty-first century.

Key Features

A contemporary and theoretically informed survey
Comprehensive coverage of the short story from its folktale origins to the present day
Twenty clear topic-based chapters covering British, American and world fiction
Further reading in each chapter together with an extensive and up-to-date bibliography of primary and secondary works

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
1. Origins: From Folktale to Art-Tale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Riddles, Hoaxes and Conundrums Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
3. Memory, Modernity and Orality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
4. Poe, O. Henry and the Well-Made Story Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
4. Poe, O. Henry and the Well-Made Story Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
6. Brought to Book: The Anthology and Its Uses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
7. Between the Lines: Dissidence and the Short Story Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
8. Enclosed Readings: The Short Story and the Academy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
9. Modernism and the Short Story Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
10. The Short Story Cycle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
11. Character Parts: Identity in the Short Story Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
12. Localities: Centres and Margins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
13. Tales of the City Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
14. Romance and the Fragment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
15. Ghost Stories and Other Hauntings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
16. Popular Short Fictions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
17. The Experimental Text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
18. Postmodernism and the Short Story Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
19. Minimalism/Dirty Realism/ Hyperrealism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
20. Voyages Out: The Postcolonial Short Story Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Other: 2 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: March 31, 2009
ISBN: 9780748632145