A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story chronicles the development of this important literary form in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Part I covers the years up to 1945 and examines the short fiction that emerged around such themes as imperial adventures, responses to war, and detective and crime stories. Authors covered in this period include Robert Louis Stevenson, James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and Elizabeth Bowen. Part II reflects the range of themes, and richer diversity of authorship, that developed during the postwar years, including feminist writings, gay and…mehr
A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story chronicles the development of this important literary form in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Part I covers the years up to 1945 and examines the short fiction that emerged around such themes as imperial adventures, responses to war, and detective and crime stories. Authors covered in this period include Robert Louis Stevenson, James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and Elizabeth Bowen. Part II reflects the range of themes, and richer diversity of authorship, that developed during the postwar years, including feminist writings, gay and lesbian fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and short stories by Asian and Afro-Caribbean writers. Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Hanif Kureishi, J.G. Ballard, and Ben Okri, are just some of the authors discussed in these chapters.
Incorporating a wide range of approaches, A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story captures the astonishing range of modern short fiction produced in Britain and Ireland from the end of the nineteenth century.
Cheryl Alexander Malcolm is Associate Professor in the Department of American Literature and Culture, English Institute, University of Gdansk, Poland David Malcolm is Professor and Chair, Department of Literary Studies, English Institute, University of Gdansk, Poland
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Notes on Contributors. Preface. Part I: 1880-1945. Introduction. 1. The British and Irish Short Story to 1945: Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm Topics and Genres. 2. The Story of Colonial Adventure: Mariadele Boccardi 3. Responses to War: 1914-1918 and 1939-1945: Richard Greaves 4. Irish Short Fiction: 1880-1945: Patrick Lonergan 5. The Detective and Crime Story: 1880-1945: Jopi Nyman 6. The British and Irish Ghost Story and Tale of the Supernatural: 1880-1945: Becky DiBiasio 7. Finding a Voice: Women Writing the Short Story (to 1945): Sabine Coelsch-Foisner 8. Rudyard Kipling's Art of the Short Story: David Malcolm Reading Individual Authors and Texts. 9. Robert Louis Stevenson: "The Bottle Imp," "The Beach of Falesá," and "Markheim": Michael Meyer 10. Thomas Hardy: Wessex Tales: David Grylls(Kellogg College, Oxford). 11. Joseph Conrad: "The Secret Sharer" and "An Outpost of Progress": Christopher Thomas Cairney 12. The Short Stories of Hector Hugh Munro ("Saki"): Sandie Byrne 13. Paralysis Re-considered: James Joyce's Dubliners: Richard Greaves 14. H.G. Wells's Short Stories: "The Country of the Blind" and "The Door in the Wall": Sabine Coelsch-Foisner 15. D.H. Lawrence's Short Stories: "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" and "The Rocking Horse Winner": Kathryn Miles 16. Virginia Woolf: "Kew Gardens" and "The Legacy": Stef Craps 17. Katherine Mansfield: "The Garden Party" and "Marriage à la Mode": Jennifer E. Dunn 18. Frank O'Connor: "Guests of the Nation" and "My Oedipus Complex": Greg Winston 19. The Short Stories of Liam O'Flaherty: Shawn O'Hare 20. W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden Stories: David Malcolm 21. Elizabeth Bowen: "The Demon Lover" and "Mysterious Kôr": Sarah Dillon Part II: 1945-the Present. Introduction. 22. The British and Irish Short Story: 1945-Present: Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm Topics and Genres. 23. New Identities: The Irish Short Story since 1945: Greg Winston 24. Redefining Englishness: British Short Fiction from 1945 to the Present: James M. Lang 25. Scottish Short Stories (post 1945): Gavin Miller 26. Hybrid Voices and Visions: The Short Stories of E.A. Markham, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Patricia Duncker, and Jackie Kay: Michael Parker 27. The Anglo-Jewish Short Story since the Holocaust: Cheryl Alexander Malcolm 28. Feminist Voices: Women's Short Fiction after 1945: Michael Meyer 29. British Gay and Lesbian Short Stories: Brett Josef Grubisic 30. Science Fiction and Fantasy after 1945: Beyond Pulp Fiction: Mitchell R. Lewis 31. Experimental Short Fiction in Britain since 1945: Günther Jarfe Reading Individual Authors and Texts. 32. The Short Stories of Julian Maclaren-Ross: David Malcolm 33. Alan Sillitoe: "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner": Michael Parker 34. The Short Stories of Elizabeth Taylor: Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr 35. The Short Fiction of V.S. Pritchett: Andrzej Gsiorek 36. Edna O'Brien: "A Rose in the Heart of New York": Sinéad Mooney 37. Doris Lessing: African Stories: Don Adams 38. The Desire for Clarity: Seán O'Faoláin's "Lovers of the Lake": Paul Delaney 39. The Short Stories of Muriel Spark: Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr 40. Jean Rhys: "Let Them Call It Jazz": Cheryl Alexander Malcolm 41. George Mackay Brown: "Witch," "Master Halcrow, Priest," "A Time to Keep," and "The Tarn and the Rosary": Gavin Miller 42. William Trevor: Uncertain Grounds for Assured Art: John Kenny 43. John McGahern: Nightlines: Stanley van der Ziel 44. The Clinking of an Identity Disk: Bernard MacLaverty's "Walking the Dog": Jerzy Jarniewicz 45. Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber: A World Transformed by Imagination and Desire - Adventures in Anarcho-Surrealism: Madelena Gonzalez 46. J.G. Ballard: Psychopathology, Apocalypse, and the Media Landscape: Mitchell R. Lewis 47. The Short Stories of Benjamin Okri: Wolfgang Görtschacher 48. James Kelman: Greyhound for Breakfast: Peter Clandfield 49. Hanif Kureishi: Love in a Blue Time: Patrick Lonergan Index
Notes on Contributors. Preface. Part I: 1880-1945. Introduction. 1. The British and Irish Short Story to 1945: Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm Topics and Genres. 2. The Story of Colonial Adventure: Mariadele Boccardi 3. Responses to War: 1914-1918 and 1939-1945: Richard Greaves 4. Irish Short Fiction: 1880-1945: Patrick Lonergan 5. The Detective and Crime Story: 1880-1945: Jopi Nyman 6. The British and Irish Ghost Story and Tale of the Supernatural: 1880-1945: Becky DiBiasio 7. Finding a Voice: Women Writing the Short Story (to 1945): Sabine Coelsch-Foisner 8. Rudyard Kipling's Art of the Short Story: David Malcolm Reading Individual Authors and Texts. 9. Robert Louis Stevenson: "The Bottle Imp," "The Beach of Falesá," and "Markheim": Michael Meyer 10. Thomas Hardy: Wessex Tales: David Grylls(Kellogg College, Oxford). 11. Joseph Conrad: "The Secret Sharer" and "An Outpost of Progress": Christopher Thomas Cairney 12. The Short Stories of Hector Hugh Munro ("Saki"): Sandie Byrne 13. Paralysis Re-considered: James Joyce's Dubliners: Richard Greaves 14. H.G. Wells's Short Stories: "The Country of the Blind" and "The Door in the Wall": Sabine Coelsch-Foisner 15. D.H. Lawrence's Short Stories: "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" and "The Rocking Horse Winner": Kathryn Miles 16. Virginia Woolf: "Kew Gardens" and "The Legacy": Stef Craps 17. Katherine Mansfield: "The Garden Party" and "Marriage à la Mode": Jennifer E. Dunn 18. Frank O'Connor: "Guests of the Nation" and "My Oedipus Complex": Greg Winston 19. The Short Stories of Liam O'Flaherty: Shawn O'Hare 20. W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden Stories: David Malcolm 21. Elizabeth Bowen: "The Demon Lover" and "Mysterious Kôr": Sarah Dillon Part II: 1945-the Present. Introduction. 22. The British and Irish Short Story: 1945-Present: Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm Topics and Genres. 23. New Identities: The Irish Short Story since 1945: Greg Winston 24. Redefining Englishness: British Short Fiction from 1945 to the Present: James M. Lang 25. Scottish Short Stories (post 1945): Gavin Miller 26. Hybrid Voices and Visions: The Short Stories of E.A. Markham, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Patricia Duncker, and Jackie Kay: Michael Parker 27. The Anglo-Jewish Short Story since the Holocaust: Cheryl Alexander Malcolm 28. Feminist Voices: Women's Short Fiction after 1945: Michael Meyer 29. British Gay and Lesbian Short Stories: Brett Josef Grubisic 30. Science Fiction and Fantasy after 1945: Beyond Pulp Fiction: Mitchell R. Lewis 31. Experimental Short Fiction in Britain since 1945: Günther Jarfe Reading Individual Authors and Texts. 32. The Short Stories of Julian Maclaren-Ross: David Malcolm 33. Alan Sillitoe: "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner": Michael Parker 34. The Short Stories of Elizabeth Taylor: Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr 35. The Short Fiction of V.S. Pritchett: Andrzej Gsiorek 36. Edna O'Brien: "A Rose in the Heart of New York": Sinéad Mooney 37. Doris Lessing: African Stories: Don Adams 38. The Desire for Clarity: Seán O'Faoláin's "Lovers of the Lake": Paul Delaney 39. The Short Stories of Muriel Spark: Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr 40. Jean Rhys: "Let Them Call It Jazz": Cheryl Alexander Malcolm 41. George Mackay Brown: "Witch," "Master Halcrow, Priest," "A Time to Keep," and "The Tarn and the Rosary": Gavin Miller 42. William Trevor: Uncertain Grounds for Assured Art: John Kenny 43. John McGahern: Nightlines: Stanley van der Ziel 44. The Clinking of an Identity Disk: Bernard MacLaverty's "Walking the Dog": Jerzy Jarniewicz 45. Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber: A World Transformed by Imagination and Desire - Adventures in Anarcho-Surrealism: Madelena Gonzalez 46. J.G. Ballard: Psychopathology, Apocalypse, and the Media Landscape: Mitchell R. Lewis 47. The Short Stories of Benjamin Okri: Wolfgang Görtschacher 48. James Kelman: Greyhound for Breakfast: Peter Clandfield 49. Hanif Kureishi: Love in a Blue Time: Patrick Lonergan Index
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"Companion to the British and Irish Short Story is an instructive and engaging guide, covering a broad range of interest in fiction from schoolwork to academic research." ( Reference Reviews , April 2009)
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