In 2013, the Nobel Prize for Literature was for the first time awarded to a short story writer, and to a Canadian, Alice Munro. The award focused international attention on a genre that had long been thriving in Canada, particularly since the 1960s. This book traces the development and highlights of the English-language Canadian short story from the late 19th century up to the present. The history as well as the theoretical approaches to the genre are covered, with in-depth examination of exemplary stories by prominent writers such as Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.
In 2013, the Nobel Prize for Literature was for the first time awarded to a short story writer, and to a Canadian, Alice Munro. The award focused international attention on a genre that had long been thriving in Canada, particularly since the 1960s. This book traces the development and highlights of the English-language Canadian short story from the late 19th century up to the present. The history as well as the theoretical approaches to the genre are covered, with in-depth examination of exemplary stories by prominent writers such as Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.
Reingard M. Nischik is professor and chair of American Literature at the University of Konstanz in Germany. She has published extensively on Canadian, American, and comparative literature. A three-time winner of the Best Book Award of the Margaret Atwood Society, she is one of the most renowned and productive scholars of Canadian literature studies internationally.
Inhaltsangabe
Table of Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Terminology Introduction Part One: History 1. The Modernist Canadian Short Story: Forging a Tradition 2. The Modernist Canadian and American Short Story: A Comparative Approach 3. The Canadian Short Story Since 1967: Between (Post)Modernism and (Neo)Realism 4. The Noble Genre: Alice Munro Brings the Nobel Prize in Literature to Canada Part Two: Approaches 5. "Pen Photographs": On Short Story Poetics and the Canadian Short Story Cycle 6. Multiple Challenges: The Canadian Artist Story and Gender 7. Gender and Genre: Margaret Atwood's Short Stories and Short Fictions 8. Multiple Liminality: Aging in the Canadian Short Story 9. Liminal Spaces, Liminal States: Crossing the CanadäU.S. Border in Canadian Border Stories 10. Cultural Locations of Ethnicity: Vancouver Short Fiction by First Nations and Chinese Canadian Writers in English Part Three: Analyses 11. (Un-)Doing Gender: Alice Munro, "Boys and Girls" 12. Canadian Artist Stories: John Metcalf, "The Strange Aberration of Mr. Ken Smythe" 13. Blending Indigenous and Western Traditions of Storytelling: Thomas King's Short Fiction 14. Crossing Generic Borders: Margaret Atwood's Short Prose Collection The Tent Chapter Notes Works Cited Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Terminology Introduction Part One: History 1. The Modernist Canadian Short Story: Forging a Tradition 2. The Modernist Canadian and American Short Story: A Comparative Approach 3. The Canadian Short Story Since 1967: Between (Post)Modernism and (Neo)Realism 4. The Noble Genre: Alice Munro Brings the Nobel Prize in Literature to Canada Part Two: Approaches 5. "Pen Photographs": On Short Story Poetics and the Canadian Short Story Cycle 6. Multiple Challenges: The Canadian Artist Story and Gender 7. Gender and Genre: Margaret Atwood's Short Stories and Short Fictions 8. Multiple Liminality: Aging in the Canadian Short Story 9. Liminal Spaces, Liminal States: Crossing the CanadäU.S. Border in Canadian Border Stories 10. Cultural Locations of Ethnicity: Vancouver Short Fiction by First Nations and Chinese Canadian Writers in English Part Three: Analyses 11. (Un-)Doing Gender: Alice Munro, "Boys and Girls" 12. Canadian Artist Stories: John Metcalf, "The Strange Aberration of Mr. Ken Smythe" 13. Blending Indigenous and Western Traditions of Storytelling: Thomas King's Short Fiction 14. Crossing Generic Borders: Margaret Atwood's Short Prose Collection The Tent Chapter Notes Works Cited Index
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