The Short Story An Introduction

by March-Russell, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780748627738
• ISBN10: 0748627731
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-31
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Summary

This new general introduction emphasises the importance of the short story to an understanding of modern fiction.

Author Biography

Paul March-Russell is Honorary Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vi
Illustrations	p. vii
Preface	p. viii
Origins: From Folk-Tale to Art-Tale	p. 1
Riddles, Hoaxes and Conundrums	p. 12
Memory, Modernity and Orality	p. 22
Poe, O. Henry and the Well-Made Story	p. 32
Economies of Scale: The Short Story in England	p. 43
Brought to Book: The Anthology and Its Uses	p. 53
Between the Lines: Dissidence and the Short Story	p. 66
Enclosed Readings: The Short Story and the Academy	p. 77
Modernism and the Short Story	p. 88
The Short Story Cycle	p. 103
Character Parts: Identity in the Short Story	p. 120
Localities: Centres and Margins	p. 134
Tales of the City	p. 150
Romance and the Fragment	p. 165
Ghost Stories and Other Hauntings	p. 179
Popular Short Fictions	p. 191
The Experimental Text	p. 210
Postmodernism and the Short Story	p. 222
Minimalism/Dirty Realism/Hyperrealism	p. 235
Voyages Out: The Postcolonial Short Story	p. 246
Bibliography	p. 260
Index	p. 283
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