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1 online resource (ix, 291 pages)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-282) and index.

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.

Summary

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 Kafka are compared to Irish, New Zealand and British practitioners such as Joyce, Mansfield and Carter as well as writers in the American tradition, from Hawthorne and Poe to Barthelme and Carver.

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Subject

Short story.

Electronic resource.

FICTION -- Anthologies (multiple authors)

Short story.

Other Form:

Print version: March-Russell, Paul. Short story. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009 9780748627745 074862774X (OCoLC)286519597

ISBN

9780748632145 (electronic bk.)

074863214X (electronic bk.)