The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English / / Adrian Hunter, Paul Delaney.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Delaney, Paul,; Hunter, Adrian,
• MitwirkendeR: Basseler, Michael,; Coleman, Philip,; Collins, Michael J.,; Cox, Ailsa,; Delaney, Paul,; Dietz, Laura,; D’hoker, Elke,; Evans, Lucy,; Grubisic, Brett Josef,; Hall, Alice,; Hunter, Adrian,; Jones, Darryl,; Jones, Timothy,; Lilley, Deborah,; March-Russell, Paul,; Naidu, Sam,; Piette, Adam,; Pong, Beryl,; Price, Joanna,; Robbins, Ruth,; Scott, Jeremy,; Smith, Jennifer J.,; Solnick, Samuel,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

New scholarly essays on the short story in English as a phenomenon of world literatureThis collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Ranging across texts from different parts of the English-speaking world, it studies the form in its many guises and venues of publication. Why have writers of so many nationalities and dispositions found the short story amenable to experimentation and discovery? What is the history and origin of the modern short story, and what has been the role of the publishing business, of academic criticism, of the Creative Writing ‘industry’, and of the digital revolution in shaping and disseminating it over the past two centuries? This collection of innovative essays by new and established scholars explores these and other questions, addressing stories from around the world, and considering their relationship to place, identity, history and genre.Key Features:New critical perspectives on the English-language short story by established scholars and new voicesProvides an international perspective on the formShowcases a wide range of critical approaches and perspectives, including Book History, genre criticism, postcolonial theory, queer studies, feminist criticism, war writing, disability studies, Creative Writing, and ecocriticism

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Historicising the Short Story -- 1 Transnationalism and the Transatlantic Short Story -- 2 The Short Story and the Professionalisation of English Studies -- 3 Impressionism and the Short Story -- 4 Writers on the Short Story: 1950–present -- Part II: Publishing the Short Story -- 5 The Short Story and the ‘Little Magazine’ -- 6 Collections, Cycles and Sequences -- 7 The Short Story Anthology -- 8 The Short Story and Digital Media -- Part III: Forms of the Short Story -- 9 Short-Short Fiction -- 10 The Weird Tale -- 11 The Horror Story -- 12 Experimental Short Stories -- 13 The War Story -- Part IV: Placing the Short Story -- 14 Regionalism and the Short Story -- 15 The Short Story and the City -- 16 The Short Story in Suburbia -- 17 The Short Story and the Environment -- Part V: Identity and the Short Story -- 18 Gender and Genre in the Short Story -- 19 Diaspora and the Short Story -- 20 The Queer Short Story -- 21 Disability and the Short Story -- Index of Short Story Titles -- General Index