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Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story

Author : Farhat Iftekharrudin,Joseph Boyden,Joseph Longo,Mary Rohrberger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313058097

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Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story by Farhat Iftekharrudin,Joseph Boyden,Joseph Longo,Mary Rohrberger Pdf

Postmodernism, as a mode of the contemporary short story, has been clearly established and recognized by short story theorists. But postmodern theory, as pervasive as it has become among academics in the last half century, has scarcely been applied to the short story genre in particular. Many contemporary scholars, nonetheless, are currently making use of certain postmodern thematic approaches to help them determine meanings of particular short stories. T Short story theory began with Edgar Allan Poe's review of Twice-Told Tales, a collection of stories by his contemporary, Nathaniel Hawthorne. But theoretical discussions of the short story languished until modernism and the new criticism provided impetus for further development. Surprisingly, though, the next large critical movement, postmodernism, failed to address the short story as a genre. But while there is little postmodern theory concerning the short story, contemporary scholars have used certain postmodern critical approaches to help determine meaning. This book demonstrates the effect of postmodern theory on the study of the short story genre. The expert contributors to this volume examine such topics as genre and form, the role of the reader, cultural and ethnic diversity, and feminist perspectives on the short story. In doing so, they apply postmodern theoretical approaches to international short stories, be they in the traditional mode, the modern mode, or the postmodern mode. The volume looks at fiction by Edith Wharton, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, and other authors, and at Iranian short fiction, the postcolonial short story, the fantastic in short fiction, and other subjects.

Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Brill
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401208321

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Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English by Anonim Pdf

How can the short story help to redefine modernism, postmodernism and their interrelationship? What is the status of the short story in modern literary history? These are the central questions that the essays collected in this volume try to answer from different perspectives through readings of short fiction in English and accounts of the genre’s theorisations. The essays by a group of international scholars tackle theoretical issues that are central in approaches to both “movements” such as periodisation, autonomy, high vs. popular literature, totality vs. fragmentation, surface vs. depth, otherness, representation, and, above all, the subject and its vicissitudes. Because it blends theory-based arguments into the approaches to the short fiction of mainly canonical authors (Joyce, Woolf, Lewis, Ballard, Carter, Rushdie, or Wallace), Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English is of interest not only to readers and scholars of the short story, but also to those coming from the fields of literary theory and literary history.

Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English

Author : Paul Delaney
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474400664

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Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English by Paul Delaney Pdf

This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century.

The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925

Author : Florence Goyet
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781909254756

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The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925 by Florence Goyet Pdf

The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular - the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing - particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagawa Ry?nosuke - Goyet shows that these authors were able to create brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicals. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. In doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this 'forgotten' genre.

Postcolonial and Gender Perspectives in Irish Studies

Author : Marisol Morales Ladrón
Publisher : Netbiblo
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0972989269

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Postcolonial and Gender Perspectives in Irish Studies by Marisol Morales Ladrón Pdf

This book represents an attempt to tackle questions related to fragmented and often conflicting ideologies within Irish studies. Although a collective outcome, with contributions in English and Spanish, its unifying concern has been the appliance of postcolonial and gender perspectives to the analysis of Irish literature (prose, drama and verse) and cinema, as well as to the aesthetic production of both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Along the volume, while some authors have chosen to delve into the broad theoretical debate concerning the position of Irish studies within postcolonial and feminist theories, others offer detailed examinations of specific literary pieces and authors that fit in this panorama. All in all, the chapters are wide and diverse enough to trace a spatial and temporal map of the evolution of these paradigms within contemporary Irish studies, North and South of the border.

The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story

Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107084179

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The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story by Ann-Marie Einhaus Pdf

This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.

The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse

Author : Kerry McSweeney
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570036950

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The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse by Kerry McSweeney Pdf

An aesthetic perspective on the short fiction of Chekhov, Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, and Carver Taking a distinctively aesthetic approach to the genre of realist short fiction, Kerry McSweeney clusters the work of five masters--Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver--to offer a poetics of the form for students and scholars. At the center of this argument is the notion that the realist short story is a glimpse--powerful and tightly focused--into a world that the writer must precisely craft and in which the reader must fully invest. Selecting writers from different generational, national, and cultural backgrounds, McSweeney chooses writers based on their commitment to the realist representation of experience and their shared belief in the importance and efficacy of the short story form. By considering their efforts in tandem, he develops a means to assess the strategies and claims of realist short fiction. McSweeney demonstrates that when the comments these writers have made about their work are assembled and critically scrutinized, the result is an aesthetic critical model--as opposed to more interpretative models that focus attention on the determination (or indetermination) of meanings. He suggests that a fully adequate reading of a realist short story involves the integration of three components: the enjoyment and contemplation of the story in and of itself; affective receptivity, or a response to the story's emotional content; and cognitive activity, or the reflective consideration of the story's conceptual implications. In individual chapters on Chekov, Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, and Carver, this presentational model is applied to widely known and often anthologized readings from each writer. McSweeney brings into sharp focus the distinctive features of each piece, makes qualitative discriminations, and assesses the profitability of other critical models. He concludes with an invitation to test the mettle of his approach in reading other realist short story writers.

Short Story Theories

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Brill
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401208390

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Short Story Theories by Anonim Pdf

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.

Contemporary Debates on the Short Story

Author : José R. Ibáñez Ibáñez,José Francisco Fernández,Carmen M. Bretones
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3039112465

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Contemporary Debates on the Short Story by José R. Ibáñez Ibáñez,José Francisco Fernández,Carmen M. Bretones Pdf

For nearly a century of being underestimated as a literary genre, the short story is currently experiencing a revival. The editors of this collection of articles have brought together the contributions of nine outstanding scholars in the field of the short story to reveal some of the many directions in which the genre is expanding. This book is a reasoned and well-documented anthology which casts light on new aspects of the short story. It participates in the current trend of short story criticism, characterized by the gathering in one single volume of a diversity of approaches with the main aim of promoting discussion on this thriving area of literary studies. The editors of this volume believe that a fruitful tension may rise by putting side by side insights into a not so well known tradition, on the one hand, and fresh considerations on unexpected developments of the short story, on the other. All in all, the short story emerges as a dynamic and flexible form that reacts and adapts itself better than any other literary genre to the challenges of the sceptical times we live in.

Handbook of the American Short Story

Author : Erik Redling,Oliver Scheiding
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110587647

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Handbook of the American Short Story by Erik Redling,Oliver Scheiding Pdf

The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.

Encyclopedia of the American Short Story

Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 3225 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9781438140759

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Encyclopedia of the American Short Story by Abby H. P. Werlock Pdf

Two-volume set that presents an introduction to American short fiction from the 19th century to the present.

Encyclopedia of the British Short Story

Author : Andrew Maunder
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 2069 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN : 9781438140704

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Encyclopedia of the British Short Story by Andrew Maunder Pdf

Provides a comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth, featuring some of the most popular writers and works.

Companion to Literature

Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 859 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438127439

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Companion to Literature by Abby H. P. Werlock Pdf

Praise for the previous edition:Booklist/RBB "Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers"RUSA/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source"" ... useful ... Recommended for public libraries and undergraduates."

The Postmodern Short Story

Author : Farhat Iftekharrudin,Joseph Boyden,Mary Rohrberger,Jaie Claudet
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313323755

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The Postmodern Short Story by Farhat Iftekharrudin,Joseph Boyden,Mary Rohrberger,Jaie Claudet Pdf

Short stories are usually defined in terms of characteristics of modernism, in which the story begins in the middle, develops according to a truncated plot, and ends with an epiphany. This approach tends to ignore postmodernism, a movement often characterized by a negation of objective reality where plots are seemingly abandoned, surfaces are extraordinary, and symbols turn inward on themselves. This book examines postmodern forms and characteristic themes by analyzing a group of short stories that make use of postmodern narrative strategies, including nonfictional fiction, gender profiling, and death as an image. The volume begins with a discussion of the blurred lines between fiction and nonfiction in the short story and imaginative personal essay. It then looks at the role of women in works by such authors as Sandra Cisneros, Leslie Marmon Silko, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lorrie Moore. This is followed by a section of chapters on postmodern masculinity and short fiction. The next section focuses on death as an image and theme in works by Richard Ford, Richard Brautigan, and James Joyce. The final set of chapters considers postmodern short fiction from South Africa and Canada.

Murder in a Few Words

Author : Charlotte Beyer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476641713

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Murder in a Few Words by Charlotte Beyer Pdf

The clue-puzzle, legal thriller, and classic whodunit are just a few of the subgenres within the widely popular crime fiction genre. However, despite its popularity among readers, the crime short story genre has yet to be fully explored by scholars. This book offers a deep-dive into crime short stories written by a wide range of authors, tracing the history and evolution of the crime short story. The book offers an accessible and original examination of crime short stories, focusing on compelling themes such as miscarriage of justice, feminism, environmental crime and toxic masculinity.