Encyclopedia Of The British Short Story
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Author | : Andrew Maunder |
Publisher | : Infobase Learning |
Total Pages | : 2069 |
Release | : 2015-04-22 |
Genre | : Short stories, English |
ISBN | : 1438140703 |
Provides a comprehensive reference to short fiction from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Commonwealth, featuring some of the most popular writers and works.
Author | : Andrew Maunder |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0816074968 |
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 | : Virginia Brackett |
Publisher | : Infobase Learning |
Total Pages | : 2708 |
Release | : 2015-04-22 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 1438140681 |
Praise for the print edition:" ... comprehensive ... Recommended."
Author | : Dean Baldwin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317321936 |
The short story was a commercial phenomenon which took off in the late nineteenth century and lasted through to the rise of television and film. Baldwin uses a wide variety of sources to show how economic factors helped to dictate how and what a wide variety of authors wrote.
Author | : Winnie Chan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2007-01-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135868581 |
This materialist study of the short story’s development in three diverse magazines reveals how, at the dawn of modernism, commercial pressures prompted modernist formal innovation in popular magazines, whilst anti-commercial opacity paradoxically formed the basis of an effective marketing strategy that appealed to elitism. Integrating methods of cultural studies with formal analyses, this study builds upon recent work challenging Andreas Huyssen’s provocative formation, the "great divide" of modernism.
Author | : David Scott Kastan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 2656 |
Release | : 2006-03-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199725314 |
From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl
Author | : Patrick Gill |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2018-05-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351382136 |
The first major collection of essays on the contemporary British short story cycle, this volume offers in-depth explorations of the genre by comparing its strategies for creating coherence with those of the novel and the short story collection, inquiring after the ties that bind individual short stories into a cycle. A section on theory approaches the form from the point of view of genre theory, cognitive literary studies, and book studies. It is followed by investigations of hitherto neglected aspects of the generic tradition of the British short story cycle and how they relate to the contemporary outlook of the form. Readings of individual contemporary cycles, illustrating the form’s multifaceted uses from the presentation of sexual identities to politics and trauma, make up the third and most substantial part of the volume, placing its focus squarely on the past decades. Unique in its combination of a focus on the literary traditions, politics and markets of the UK with a thorough examination of the genre’s manifold formal and thematic potentials, the volume explores what is at the heart of the short story cycle as a literary form: the constant negotiation between unity and separateness, collective and individual, of coherence and autonomy.
Author | : Barbara Korte |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2020-01-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030303594 |
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 | : Bettina Jansen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2018-08-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3319948601 |
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 | : Geoff Hamilton |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 143812970X |
Provides a comprehensive overview of the best writers and works of the current English-speaking literary world.