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

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 shor...

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Superior document:Postmodern studies ; 48
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2012.
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.
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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.