The short story : an introduction /
This new general introduction emphasises the importance of the short story to an understanding of modern fiction. 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 K...
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Edinburgh University Press,
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Preface
- 1 Origins: From Folktale 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 Academ
- 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 Fragmen
- 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.
