An edition of The short story
(2009)
The short story
an introduction
by Paul March-Russell
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An introduction to the history, culture, aesthetics and economics of the short story. The book pays attention to experimental, postcolonial and popular fiction alongside developments in Anglo-American, Hispanic and European literature.
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The short story: an introduction
2009, Edinburgh University Press
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074862774X 9780748627745
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Table of Contents
Origins: from folk-tale to art-tale
Riddles, hoaxes and conundrums
Memory, modernity and orality
Poe, O. Henry and the well-made story
Economies of scale: the short story in England
Brought to book: the anthology and its uses
Between the lines: dissidence and the short story
Enclosed readings: the short story and the academy
Modernism and the short story
The short story cycle
Character parts: identity in the short story
Localities: centres and margins
Tales of the city
Romance and the fragment
Ghost stories and other hauntings
Popular short fictions
The experimental text
Postmodernism and the short story
Minimalism/dirty realism/hyperrealism
Voyages out: the postcolonial short story.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-282) and index.
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