The British And Irish Short Story Handbook

Author : David Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444355215

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The British and Irish Short Story Handbook by David Malcolm Pdf

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 : Anna Wing-bo Tso,Scarlett Lee
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476673981

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Reading the Short Story by Anna Wing-bo Tso,Scarlett Lee Pdf

Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an overview of the key short story writers, and an explanatory chapter of literary criticism, this book aims to give readers insight into the works by canonical British, Irish, and American authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, and more. Applying close reading skills and critical literary approaches to twelve selected short stories in English, this work conducts comparative analyses to reveal the interrelationships between the texts, the authors, the readers, and the sociocultural contexts. Developed and tested in literature classes at university over several semesters, this book addresses key issues, topics and trends in the short story genre.

Author : James Nagel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470655429

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The American Short Story Handbook by James Nagel Pdf

This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories, from Benjamin Franklin’s “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” in 1747 to “The Joy Luck Club”. Includes a selection of writers chosen not only for their contributions of individual stories but for bodies of work that advanced the boundaries of short fiction, including Washington Irving, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tim O’Brien Addresses the ways in which American oral storytelling and other narrative traditions were integral to the formation and flourishing of the short story genre Written in accessible and engaging prose for students at all levels by a renowned literary scholar to illuminate an important genre that has received short shrift in scholarly literature of the last century Includes a glossary defining the most common terms used in literary history and in critical discussions of fiction, and a bibliography of works for further study

Author : Bettina Jansen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319948607

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Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story by Bettina Jansen Pdf

Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story offers the first systematic study of black British short story writing, tracing its development from the 1950s to the present with a particular focus on contemporary short stories by Hanif Kureishi, Jackie Kay, Suhayl Saadi, Zadie Smith, and Hari Kunzru. By combining a postcolonial framework of analysis with Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstructive philosophy of community, the book charts key tendencies in black British short fiction and explores how black British writers use the short story form to combat deeply entrenched notions of community and experiment with non-essentialist alternatives across differences of ethnicity, culture, religion, and nationality.

Author : Liam Harte
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198754893

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction by Liam Harte Pdf

Presents essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction that provide authoritative assessments of the breadth and achievement of Irish novelists and short story writers.

Author : Emma Young
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474401395

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British Women Short Story Writers by Emma Young Pdf

Essays tracing the evolving relationship between British women writers and the short story genre from the late Nineteenth Century to the present day.

Author : Barbara Korte,Laura Ma Lojo-Rodríguez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030303594

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Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story by Barbara Korte,Laura Ma Lojo-Rodríguez Pdf

This book represents a contribution to both border studies and short story studies. In today’s world, there is ample evidence of the return of borders worldwide: as material reality, as a concept, and as a way of thinking. This collection of critical essays focuses on the ways in which the contemporary British short story mirrors, questions and engages with border issues in national and individual life. At the same time, the concept of the border, as well as neighbouring notions of liminality and intersectionality, is used to illuminate the short story’s unique aesthetic potential. The first section, “Geopolitics and Grievable Lives”, includes chapters that address the various ways in which contemporary stories engage with our newly bordered world and borders within contemporary Britain. The second section examines how British short stories engage with “Ethnicity and Liminal Identities”, while the third, “Animal Encounters and Metamorphic Bodies”, focuses on stories concerned with epistemological borders and borderlands of existence and identity. Taken together, the chapters in this volume demonstrate the varied and complex ways in which British short stories in the twenty-first century engage with the concept of the border.

Author : Peter Messent
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470657041

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The Crime Fiction Handbook by Peter Messent Pdf

The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts. Provides an accessible and well-written introduction to the genre of crime fiction Moves with ease between a general overview of the genre and useful theoretical approaches Includes a close analysis of the key texts in the crime fiction tradition Identifies what makes crime fiction of such cultural importance and illuminates the social and political anxieties at its heart. Shows the similarities and differences between British, American, and Scandinavian crime fiction traditions

Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,6 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.

Author : Michael O'Neill,Madeleine Callaghan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118308721

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The Romantic Poetry Handbook by Michael O'Neill,Madeleine Callaghan Pdf

An absorbing survey of poetry written in one of the most revolutionary eras in the history of British literature This comprehensive survey of British Romantic poetry explores the work of six poets whose names are most closely associated with the Romantic era—Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Byron, and Shelley—as well as works by other significant but less widely studied poets such as Leigh Hunt, Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Along with its exceptional coverage, the volume is alert to relevant contexts, and opens up ways of understanding Romantic poetry. The Romantic Poetry Handbook encompasses the entire breadth of the Romantic Movement, beginning with Anna Laetitia Barbauld and running through to Thomas Lovell Beddoes and John Clare. In its central section ‘Readings’ it explores tensions, change, and continuity within the Romantic Movement, and examines a wide range of individual poems and poets through sensitive, attentive and accessible analyses. In addition, the authors provide a full introduction, a detailed historical and cultural timeline, biographies of the poets whose works are featured in the “Readings” section, and a helpful guide to further reading. The Romantic Poetry Handbook is an ideal text for undergraduate and postgraduate study of British Romantic poetry. It also will appeal to every reader with an interest in the Romantics and in poetry generally.

Author : Vanessa Guignery,Wojciech Drąg
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781622736461

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The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction by Vanessa Guignery,Wojciech Drąg Pdf

The last decades have seen a revival of fragmentation in British and American works of fiction that deny linearity, coherence and continuity in favour of disruption, gaps and fissures. Authors such as Ali Smith, David Mitchell and David Shields have sought new ways of representing our global, media-saturated contemporary experience which differ from modernist and postmodernist experimentations from which the writers nevertheless draw inspiration. This volume aims to investigate some of the most important contributions to fragmentary literature from British and American writers since the 1990s, with a particular emphasis on texts released in the twenty-first century. The chapters within examine whether contemporary forms of literary fragmentation constitute a return to the modernist episteme or the fragmented literature of exhaustion of the 1960s, mark a continuity with postmodernist aesthetics or signal a deviation from past models and an attempt to reflect today’s accelerated culture of social media and over-communication. Contributors theorise and classify literary fragments, examine the relationship between fragmentation and the Zeitgeist (influenced by globalisation, media saturation and social networks), analyse the mechanics of multimodal and multimedial fictions, and consider the capacity of literary fragmentation to represent personal or collective trauma and to address ethical concerns. They also investigate the ways in which the architecture of the printed book is destabilised and how aesthetic processes involving fragmentation, bricolage and/or collage raise ontological, ethical and epistemological questions about the globalised contemporary world we live in and its relation to the self and the other. Besides the aforementioned authors, the volume makes reference to the works of J. G. Ballard, Julian Barnes, Mark Z. Danielewski, David Markson, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Foster Wallace, Jeanette Winterson and several others.

Author : William Greenslade,Emanuela Ettorre
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781889664

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Hubert Crackanthorpe: Selected Writings by William Greenslade,Emanuela Ettorre Pdf

Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870-1896) made a critically significant contribution to the evolution of the modernist short story in Britain. His unexplained death in Paris at the age of 26 cut short a highly promising literary career. The striking realism of Crackanthorpe's first collection of short stories, Wreckage (1893), followed by the psychologically complex Sentimental Studies and posthumous Last Studies (1896), together with the prose poems of Vignettes (1896), were much admired by Henry James and his contemporaries, Dowson, Johnson and Symons, as the work of a leading, innovative writer of critical Decadence. Indeed his stories combine an unrelenting realism with a conscious aestheticizing of their often troubling, bleak subject matter. As co-editor of the short-lived periodical, The Albermarle and campaigning literary journalist, Crackanthorpe was a key critical participant in central literary and artistic debates of the early 1890s: 'facts' versus 'effects' in literature; the efficacy of realism/naturalism; questions of taste, 'reticence' and the handling of controversial subject matter. This fully annotated, critical text comprises the most extensive collection to date of Crackanthorpe's writing. As well as uncollected stories, the volume includes a short story never previously published in book form. This edition also contains a selection of Crackanthorpe's critical writings and a bibliographical survey of his work.

Author : AGS Secondary
Publisher : Ags Classic Short Stories
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0785406433

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Great British and Irish Short Stories Classroom Library: Includes 3 EA Ch of 10 Titles, Teacher's Notes, Curriculum Guide by AGS Secondary Pdf

Author : Jorge Sacido-Romero,Laura Lojo-Rodríguez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351604895

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Gender and Short Fiction by Jorge Sacido-Romero,Laura Lojo-Rodríguez Pdf

In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura M Lojo-Rodriguez explain why artistically ambitious women writers continue turning to the short story, a genre that has not yet attained the degree of literary prestige and social recognition the novel has had in the modern period. In this timely volume, the editors endorse the view that the genre still retains its potential as a vehicle for the expression of female experience alternative to and/or critical with dominant patriarchal ideology present at the very onset of the development of the modern British short story at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Author : Virginia Woolf,Bryony Randall,David Bradshaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780198838135

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Kew Gardens and Other Short Fiction by Virginia Woolf,Bryony Randall,David Bradshaw Pdf

'The ponderous woman looked through the pattern of falling words at the flowers standing cool, firm, and upright in the earth, with a curious expression. . .So heavy the woman came to a standstill opposite the oval shaped flowerbed, and ceased even to pretend to listen to what the other woman was saying.' Virginia Woolf's short fiction has long been acknowledged as the place where she tried out some of her more experimental techniques before adopting and adapting them for use in her novel-length works. While this is certainly true, it is also the case that these short pieces are now increasingly being recognized as important works of art in their own right, rather than simply flights of experimental fancy awaiting their full actualization in the novel form. This new edition edited by Bryony Randall emphasises the startling variety in Woolf's experimentation during the most productive period of short fiction writing in Woolf's life, the late 1910s through to the end of the 1920s. It draws readers' attention to the deep political engagements evident across the range of her work and on the recent burgeoning of work in modernist print culture to set out the importance of the material context of these works' initial publication and reception.