The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English

ISBN-13: 9781474400657 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 400 str.

Opis

This collection of 27 newly commissioned and authoritative essays by international scholars explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Ranging across writing from Britain, Ireland, North America, India, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and the Caribbean, it studies the form in its many guises and venues of publication. Divided into five distinct sections - Defining the Short Story; Publishing the Short Story; The Forms of the Short Story; Place and the Short Story; and Identity and the Short Story, each with its own contextualising introduction - the essays consider the short story in relation to issues of place, identity, and genre. Chapters range from transatlantic formulations to flash fiction; 'little magazines' to digital media; fantasy and science fiction to the short story and war; nationalism, regionalism, and migration to the city, and the suburbs; gay and lesbian stories to multiculturalism, and disability.
As these essays demonstrate, the short story has played a central role in the development of English-language fiction around the world. A particular feature of this volume is the close attention it pays to the role of the publishing business, academic criticism, the Creative Writing 'industry', and the digital revolution in shaping and disseminating short fiction, as well as the reasons why writers of so many different nationalities and dispositions have found the short story amenable to experimentation and discovery.

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Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction, Paul Delaney & Adrian Hunter; Part 1: Historicising the Short Story; 1. Transnationalism and the Transatlantic Short Story, Michael J. Collins; 2. The Short Story and the Professionalisation of English Studies, Adrian Hunter; 3. Impressionism and the Short Story, Paul March-Russell; 4. Writers on the Short Story: 1950-present, Ailsa Cox; Part 2: Publishing the Short Story; 5. The Short Story and the ‘Little Magazine’, Beryl Pong; 6. Collections, Cycles, and Sequences, Jennifer J. Smith; 7. The Short Story Anthology, Elke D’hoker; 8. The Short Story and Digital Media, Laura Dietz; Part 3: Forms of the Short Story; 9. Short-Short Fiction, Michael Basseler; 10. The Weird Tale, Timothy Jones; 11. The Horror Story, Darryl Jones; 12. Experimental Short Stories, Jeremy Scott; 13. The War Story, Adam Piette; Part 4: Placing the Short Story; 14. Regionalism and the Short Story, Lucy Evans; 15. The Short Story and the City, Philip Coleman; 16. The Short Story in Suburbia, Joanna Price; 17. The Short Story and the Environment, Deborah Lilley & Sam Solnick; Part 5: Identity and the Short Story; 18. Gender and Genre in the Short Story, Ruth Robbins; 19. Diaspora and the Short Story, Sam Naidu; 20. The Queer Short Story, Brett Josef Grubisic; 21. Disability and the Short Story, Alice Hall; Index.