Paul March-Russell

Short Story (eBook, PDF)

An Introduction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748632145
• Artikelnr.: 38222016

Autorenporträt

Paul March-Russell is Honorary Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He is also Commissioning Editor of the Critical Studies in Science Fiction series with Gylphi. His other publications include Ruskin in Perspective, co-edited with Carmen Casaliggi (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), and an edited volume of May Sinclair's Uncanny Stories (Wordsworth Editions, 2006). He is currently editing George Egerton's The Wheel of God (Pickering and Chatto, forthcoming) and writing a study of the Neo-Romantic movement, 1925-55.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Preface
1: Origins: From Folk-Tale to Art-Tale
2: Riddles, Hoaxes and Conundrums
3: Memory, Modernity and Orality
4: Poe, O. Henry and the Well-Made Story
5: Economies of Scale: The Short Story in England
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.