Format:
346 S.
ISBN:
9042035641
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9789042035645
Series Statement:
DQR studies in literature 49
Content:
"Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective problematizes different aspects of the renewal and development of the short story. The aim of this collection is to explore the most recent theoretical issues raised by the short story as a genre and to offer theoretical and practical perspectives on the form. Centering as it does on specific authors and on the wider implications of short story poetics, this collection presents a new series of essays that both reinterpret canonical writers of the genre and advance new critical insights on the most recent trends and contemporary authors. Theorizations about genre reflect on different aspects of the short story from a multiplicity of perspectives and take the form of historical and aesthetic considerations, gender-centered accounts, and examinations that attend to reader-response theory, cognitive patterns, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, postcolonial studies, postmodern techniques, and contemporary uses of minimalist forms. Looking ahead, this collection traces the evolution of the short story from Chaucer through the Romantic writings of Poe to the postmodern developments and into the twenty-first century. This volume will prove of interest to scholars and graduate students working in the fields of the short story and of literature in general. In addition, the readability and analytical transparence of these essays make them accessible to a more general readership interested in fiction."--Publisher's website
Note:
1.The beginnings of the short story and the legacy of Poe.The short story: an overview of the history and evolution of the genre
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2.The linguistic turn: discourse analysis, cognitive theories and pragmatism.Frames speaking: Malamud, Silko, and the reader
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3.Borders, postcolonialism, orality, and gender.The yellow hybrids: gender and genre in Gilman's Wallpaper
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4.Postmodernism and the twenty-first century: intertextuality, minifiction, serial narration.Intertextuality and collage in Barthelme's short fiction
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789401208390
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
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Kurzgeschichte
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Gattungstheorie
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Aufsatzsammlung
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