The Short Story
eBook - PDF

The Short Story

An Introduction

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Short Story

An Introduction

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Information

Publisher
EUP
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9780748632145
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Illustrations
  6. Preface
  7. 1 Origins: From Folktale to Art-Tale
  8. 2 Riddles, Hoaxes and Conundrums
  9. 3 Memory, Modernity and Orality
  10. 4 Poe, O. Henry and the Well-Made Story
  11. 5 Economies of Scale: The Short Story in England
  12. 6 Brought to Book: The Anthology and Its Uses
  13. 7 Between the Lines: Dissidence and the Short Story
  14. 8 Enclosed Readings: The Short Story and the Academ
  15. 9 Modernism and the Short Story
  16. 10 The Short Story Cycle
  17. 11 Character Parts: Identity in the Short Story
  18. 12 Localities: Centres and Margins
  19. 13 Tales of the City
  20. 14 Romance and the Fragmen
  21. 15 Ghost Stories and Other Hauntings
  22. 16 Popular Short Fictions
  23. 17 The Experimental Text
  24. 18 Postmodernism and the Short Story
  25. 19 Minimalism/Dirty Realism/Hyperrealism
  26. 20 Voyages Out: The Postcolonial Short Story
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index