UID:
edocfu_9959233046502883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 388 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78785-762-X
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1-4744-4223-4
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1-4744-0066-3
Series Statement:
Edinburgh companions to literature
Content:
New scholarly essays on the short story in English as a phenomenon of world literature. This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Ranging across texts from different parts of the English-speaking world, it studies the form in its many guises and venues of publication. Why have writers of so many nationalities and dispositions found the short story amenable to experimentation and discovery? What is the history and origin of the modern short story, and what has been the role of the publishing business, of academic criticism, of the Creative Writing 'industry', and of the digital revolution in shaping and disseminating it over the past two centuries? This collection of innovative essays by new and established scholars explores these and other questions, addressing stories from around the world, and considering their relationship to place, identity, history and genre.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2019).
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Introduction / Paul Delaney and Adrian Hunter -- Part I: Historicising the short story -- Transnationalism and the transatlantic short story / Michael J. Collins -- The short story and the professionalisation of English studies / Adrian Hunter -- Impressionism and the short story / Paul March-Russell -- Writers on the short story: 1950-present / Ailsa Cox -- Part II: Publishing the short story -- The short story and the 'little magazine' / Beryl Pong -- Collections, cycles and sequences / Jennifer J. Smith -- The short story anthology / Elke D'hokerv -- The short story and digital media / Laura Dietz -- Part III: Forms of the short story -- Short-short fiction / Michael Basseler -- The weird tale / Timothy Jones -- The horror story / Darryl Jones -- Experimental short stories / Jeremy Scott -- The war story / Adam Piette -- Part IV: Placing the short story -- Regionalism and the short story / Lucy Evans -- The short story and the city / Philip Coleman -- The short story in suburbia / Joanna Price -- The short story and the environment / Deborah Lilley and Samuel Solnick -- Part V: Identity and the short story -- Gender and genre in the short story / Ruth Robbins -- Diaspora and the short story / Sam Naidu -- The queer short story / Brett Josef Grubisic -- Disability and the short story / Alice Hall -- Index of short story titles.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4744-0065-5
Language:
English
