The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English

Paul Delaney; Adrian Hunter

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2018

The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English

Paul Delaney and Adrian Hunter

In the series Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474400664

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About this book

New scholarly essays on the short story in English as a phenomenon of world literature

This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Ranging across texts from different parts of the English-speaking world, it studies the form in its many guises and venues of publication. Why have writers of so many nationalities and dispositions found the short story amenable to experimentation and discovery? What is the history and origin of the modern short story, and what has been the role of the publishing business, of academic criticism, of the Creative Writing ‘industry’, and of the digital revolution in shaping and disseminating it over the past two centuries? This collection of innovative essays by new and established scholars explores these and other questions, addressing stories from around the world, and considering their relationship to place, identity, history and genre.

Key Features:

New critical perspectives on the English-language short story by established scholars and new voices
Provides an international perspective on the form
Showcases a wide range of critical approaches and perspectives, including Book History, genre criticism, postcolonial theory, queer studies, feminist criticism, war writing, disability studies, Creative Writing, and ecocriticism

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction Paul Delaney and Adrian Hunter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Historicising the Short Story
1 Transnationalism and the Transatlantic Short Story Michael J. Collins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2 The Short Story and the Professionalisation of English Studies Adrian Hunter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3 Impressionism and the Short Story Paul March-Russell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
4 Writers on the Short Story: 1950–present Ailsa Cox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
Part II: Publishing the Short Story
5 The Short Story and the ‘Little Magazine’ Beryl Pong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
6 Collections, Cycles and Sequences Jennifer J. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
7 The Short Story Anthology Elke D’hoker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
8 The Short Story and Digital Media Laura Dietz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Part III: Forms of the Short Story
9 Short-Short Fiction Michael Basseler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
10 The Weird Tale Timothy Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
11 The Horror Story Darryl Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
12 Experimental Short Stories Jeremy Scott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
13 The War Story Adam Piette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Part IV: Placing the Short Story
14 Regionalism and the Short Story Lucy Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
15 The Short Story and the City Philip Coleman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
16 The Short Story in Suburbia Joanna Price Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
17 The Short Story and the Environment Deborah Lilley and Samuel Solnick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
Part V: Identity and the Short Story
18 Gender and Genre in the Short Story Ruth Robbins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
19 Diaspora and the Short Story Sam Naidu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
20 The Queer Short Story Brett Josef Grubisic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	328
21 Disability and the Short Story Alice Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	346
Index of Short Story Titles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 400
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474400664