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Author : C. Hanson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349176854
Author : Clare Hanson
Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : 0312722206
Author : Jane Marjorie Rabb
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0826318711
For over a hundred years stories about photographs and photography have reflected the profound uncertainties and inconclusive endings of the modern world. For many writers, photography, supposedly the most realistic of the arts, turns out to be the most ambiguous. As Jane Rabb observes in her introduction, a number of the stories in this collection involve mysteries, perhaps because photography has a capacity for both documentary reality and moral and psychological ambiguity. Many nineteenth-century writers represented here, including Thomas Hardy and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, helped make short fiction as respectable as the novel. Some of them were even serious photographers themselves. The twentieth century is arguably a golden age for both the short story and photography. This collection includes examples from a worldly group of writer--Eugène Ionesco, Julio Cortá¡zar, Michel Tournier, and Italo Calvino, as well as the Chinese writer Bing Xin and John Updike, Cynthia Ozick, and Raymond Carver. In this wide range of stories, varying from sentimental to obsessive, to sinister, to tragic and even fatal, the reader will find provocative examples of the confluence of the short story and photography, both once considered the bastard stepchildren of literature and art.
Author : Clare Hanson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349103133
This collection of essays maintaining links with theory and practice applies a critical approach to the short story form. Some are theoretical in orientation, covering such issues as gender and marginality, while others offer readings of works by writers such as Alice Munro and John McGahern.
Author : David Malcolm,Cheryl Alexander Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 144430478X
A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story provides a comprehensive treatment of short fiction writing and chronicles its development in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Provides a comprehensive treatment of the short story in Britain and Ireland as it developed over the period 1880 to the present Includes essays on topics and genres, as well as on individual texts and authors Comprises chapters on women’s writing, Irish fiction, gay and lesbian writing, and short fiction by immigrants to Britain
Author : David Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444355215
The British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers through the development of the short story and the unique critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction. It includes a wide-ranging analysis of non-canonical and non-realist writers as well as the major authors and their works, providing a comprehensive and much-needed appraisal of this area. Guides readers through the development of the short story and critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction Offers a detailed discussion of the range of genres in the British and Irish short story Includes extensive analysis of non-canonical writers, such as Hubert Crackanthorpe, Ella D’Arcy, T.F. Powys, A.E. Coppard, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Mollie Panter-Downes, Denton Welch, and Sylvia Townsend Warner Provide a wide-ranging discussion of non-realist and experimental short stories Includes a large section on the British short story in the Second World War
Author : Emma Young
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474401395
Essays tracing the evolving relationship between British women writers and the short story genre from the late Nineteenth Century to the present day.
Author : Emma Liggins,Andrew Maunder,Ruth Robbins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230300804
The short story remains a crucial - if neglected - part of British literary heritage. This accessible and up-to-date critical overview maps out the main strands and figures that shaped the British short story and novella from the 1850s to the present. It offers new readings of both classic and forgotten texts in a clear, jargon-free way.
Author : Farhat Iftekharrudin,Joseph Boyden,Joseph Longo,Mary Rohrberger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313058097
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.
Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192839691
'I shall never forget the day I wrote "The Mark on the Wall" - all in a flash, as if flying, after being kept stone breaking for months. "The Unwritten Novel" was the great discovery, however. That - again in one second - showed me how I could embody all my deposit of experience in a shapethat fitted it... I saw, branching out of the tunnel I made, when I discovered that method of approach, Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway etc - How I trembled with excitement.' The thrill Woolf got from these stories is readily apparent to the reader. She wrote them in defiance of convention, with a heady feeling of liberation and with a clear sense that she was breaking new ground. Indeed, if she had not made her bold and experimental forays into the short story in theperiod leading up to the publication of Jacob's Room (1922), it seems certain that her arrival as a great modernist novelist would have been delayed. Quirky, unrestrained, disturbing and surprising, many of these stories, particularly the early ones, are essential to an understanding of Woolf'sdevelopment as a writer. She thought some of her short fiction might be 'unprintable' but, happily, she was mistaken.
Author : Andrew Maunder
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816074969
A comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth. With approximately 450 entries, this A-to-Z guide explores the literary contributions of such writers as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Katherine Mansfield, Martin Amis, and others.
Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107084179
This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.
Author : Florence Goyet
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781909254756
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.
Author : Charles May
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136747885
The short story is one of the most difficult types of prose to write and one of the most pleasurable to read. From Boccaccio's Decameron to The Collected Stories of Reynolds Price, Charles May gives us an understanding of the history and structure of this demanding form of fiction. Beginning with a general history of the genre, he moves on to focus on the nineteenth-century when the modern short story began to come into focus. From there he moves on to later nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century formalism and finally to the modern renaissance of the form that shows no signs of abating. A chronology of significant events, works and figures from the genre's history, notes and references and an extensive bibliographic essay with recommended reading round out the volume.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Brill
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401208390
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.