The Short Story : : An Introduction / / Paul March-Russell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: March-Russell, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations

Emphasises the importance of the short story to an understanding of modern fictionIn 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 FeaturesA contemporary and theoretically informed surveyComprehensive coverage of the short story from its folktale origins to the present dayTwenty clear topic-based chapters covering British, American and world fictionFurther reading in each chapter together with an extensive and up-to-date bibliography of primary and secondary works Paul-March Russell's homepageContact Paul-March Russell: [e-mail]"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Origins: From Folktale to Art-Tale -- 2. Riddles, Hoaxes and Conundrums -- 3. Memory, Modernity and Orality -- 4. Poe, O. Henry and the Well-Made Story -- 4. Poe, O. Henry and the Well-Made Story -- 6. Brought to Book: The Anthology and Its Uses -- 7. Between the Lines: Dissidence and the Short Story -- 8. Enclosed Readings: The Short Story and the Academy -- 9. Modernism and the Short Story -- 10. The Short Story Cycle -- 11. Character Parts: Identity in the Short Story -- 12. Localities: Centres and Margins -- 13. Tales of the City -- 14. Romance and the Fragment -- 15. Ghost Stories and Other Hauntings -- 16. Popular Short Fictions -- 17. The Experimental Text -- 18. Postmodernism and the Short Story -- 19. Minimalism/Dirty Realism/ Hyperrealism -- 20. Voyages Out: The Postcolonial Short Story -- Bibliography -- Index