Modernism, postmodernism, and the short story in English / / edited by Jorge Sacido.

• TeilnehmendeR: Sacido, Jorge.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Postmodern studies ; 48; Postmodern Studies 48.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (275 p.)
• Notes: Essays.; Collection of texts published previously.

How can the short story help to redefine modernism, postmodernism and their interrelationship? What is the status of the short story in modern literary history? These are the central questions that the essays collected in this volume try to answer from different perspectives through readings of short fiction in English and accounts of the genre’s theorisations. The essays by a group of international scholars tackle theoretical issues that are central in approaches to both “movements” such as periodisation, autonomy, high vs. popular literature, totality vs. fragmentation, surface vs. depth, otherness, representation, and, above all, the subject and its vicissitudes. Because it blends theory-based arguments into the approaches to the short fiction of mainly canonical authors (Joyce, Woolf, Lewis, Ballard, Carter, Rushdie, or Wallace), Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English is of interest not only to readers and scholars of the short story, but also to those coming from the fields of literary theory and literary history.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Jorge Sacido -- Modernism, Postmodernism and the Short Story / Jorge Sacido -- The Short Story and the Difficulty of Modernism / Adrian Hunter -- Allegory and Fragmentation in Wyndham Lewis’s The Wild Body and Djuna Barnes’s A Book / José María Díaz -- Man in a Sidecar: Madness, Totality and Narrative Drive in the Short Story / Tim Armstrong -- Stories, Spectres, Screens / Fred Botting -- The Writing Machine: J. G. Ballard in Modern and Postmodern Short Story Theory / Paul March-Russell -- Postmodernist Tales from the Couch / Esther Sánchez-Pardo -- Mind the Gap: Modernism in Salman Rushdie’s Postmodern Short Stories / J. Manuel Barbeito and María Lozano -- One anOther: Englishness in Contemporary Irish Short Fiction / Manuela Palacios -- A Move against the Dinosaurs: The New Puritans and the Short Story / José Francisco Fernández -- Contributors / Jorge Sacido -- Index / Jorge Sacido.