Short Stories and Short Fictions, 1880–1980
Author | : C. Hanson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 1984-12-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349176850 |
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Author | : C. Hanson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 1984-12-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349176850 |
Author | : Jane Marjorie Rabb |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780826318718 |
For over a hundred years stories about photographs and photography have reflected the profound uncertainties and inconclusive endings of the modern world. For many writers, photography, supposedly the most realistic of the arts, turns out to be the most ambiguous. As Jane Rabb observes in her introduction, a number of the stories in this collection involve mysteries, perhaps because photography has a capacity for both documentary reality and moral and psychological ambiguity. Many nineteenth-century writers represented here, including Thomas Hardy and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, helped make short fiction as respectable as the novel. Some of them were even serious photographers themselves. The twentieth century is arguably a golden age for both the short story and photography. This collection includes examples from a worldly group of writer--Eugène Ionesco, Julio Cortá¡zar, Michel Tournier, and Italo Calvino, as well as the Chinese writer Bing Xin and John Updike, Cynthia Ozick, and Raymond Carver. In this wide range of stories, varying from sentimental to obsessive, to sinister, to tragic and even fatal, the reader will find provocative examples of the confluence of the short story and photography, both once considered the bastard stepchildren of literature and art.
Author | : Clare Hanson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 1989-06-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1349103136 |
This collection of essays maintaining links with theory and practice applies a critical approach to the short story form. Some are theoretical in orientation, covering such issues as gender and marginality, while others offer readings of works by writers such as Alice Munro and John McGahern.
Author | : David Malcolm |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2009-01-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781444304787 |
A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story provides a comprehensive treatment of short fiction writing and chronicles its development in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Provides a comprehensive treatment of the short story in Britain and Ireland as it developed over the period 1880 to the present Includes essays on topics and genres, as well as on individual texts and authors Comprises chapters on women’s writing, Irish fiction, gay and lesbian writing, and short fiction by immigrants to Britain
Author | : David Malcolm |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 2012-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 144435521X |
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 | : Clare Hanson |
Publisher | : New York : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Short stories, American |
ISBN | : 9780312722203 |
Author | : Farhat Iftekharrudin |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2003-12-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0313052468 |
Short stories are usually defined in terms of characteristics of modernism, in which the story begins in the middle, develops according to a truncated plot, and ends with an epiphany. This approach tends to ignore postmodernism, a movement often characterized by a negation of objective reality where plots are seemingly abandoned, surfaces are extraordinary, and symbols turn inward on themselves. This book examines postmodern forms and characteristic themes by analyzing a group of short stories that make use of postmodern narrative strategies, including nonfictional fiction, gender profiling, and death as an image. The volume begins with a discussion of the blurred lines between fiction and nonfiction in the short story and imaginative personal essay. It then looks at the role of women in works by such authors as Sandra Cisneros, Leslie Marmon Silko, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lorrie Moore. This is followed by a section of chapters on postmodern masculinity and short fiction. The next section focuses on death as an image and theme in works by Richard Ford, Richard Brautigan, and James Joyce. The final set of chapters considers postmodern short fiction from South Africa and Canada.
Author | : Emma Young |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2015-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474401392 |
Essays tracing the evolving relationship between British women writers and the short story genre from the late Nineteenth Century to the present day.
Author | : Emma Liggins |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017-09-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230300804 |
The short story remains a crucial - if neglected - part of British literary heritage. This accessible and up-to-date critical overview maps out the main strands and figures that shaped the British short story and novella from the 1850s to the present. It offers new readings of both classic and forgotten texts in a clear, jargon-free way.
Author | : Farhat Iftekharrudin |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2003-03-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0313058091 |
Postmodernism, as a mode of the contemporary short story, has been clearly established and recognized by short story theorists. But postmodern theory, as pervasive as it has become among academics in the last half century, has scarcely been applied to the short story genre in particular. Many contemporary scholars, nonetheless, are currently making use of certain postmodern thematic approaches to help them determine meanings of particular short stories. T Short story theory began with Edgar Allan Poe's review of Twice-Told Tales, a collection of stories by his contemporary, Nathaniel Hawthorne. But theoretical discussions of the short story languished until modernism and the new criticism provided impetus for further development. Surprisingly, though, the next large critical movement, postmodernism, failed to address the short story as a genre. But while there is little postmodern theory concerning the short story, contemporary scholars have used certain postmodern critical approaches to help determine meaning. This book demonstrates the effect of postmodern theory on the study of the short story genre. The expert contributors to this volume examine such topics as genre and form, the role of the reader, cultural and ethnic diversity, and feminist perspectives on the short story. In doing so, they apply postmodern theoretical approaches to international short stories, be they in the traditional mode, the modern mode, or the postmodern mode. The volume looks at fiction by Edith Wharton, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, and other authors, and at Iranian short fiction, the postcolonial short story, the fantastic in short fiction, and other subjects.