The first major collection of essays on the contemporary British short story cycle, this volume offers in-depth explorations of the genre by comparing its strategies for creating coherence with those of the novel and the short story collection, inquiring after the ties that bind individual short stories into a cycle. A section on theory approach
The first major collection of essays on the contemporary British short story cycle, this volume offers in-depth explorations of the genre by comparing its strategies for creating coherence with those of the novel and the short story collection, inquiring after the ties that bind individual short stories into a cycle. A section on theory approach
Patrick Gill received his PhD in English literature from Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz where he is now a senior lecturer. His teaching and publications focus on the efficacy of literary form. He is the author of Origins and Effects of Poetic Ambiguity in Dylan Thomas's Collected Poems (2014) and has published essays on poetry, contemporary fiction and British and American TV culture. Florian Kläger is Professor of English at the University of Bayreuth. He holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Düsseldorf and has published several books and essays on early modern literature, diasporic fiction, and the contemporary novel. His research interests are linked by the question after the formal resources of literature for the creation of social cohesion.
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Table of Contents 1 Patrick Gill, Florian Kläger Introduction: Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle I: Theory 2 Elke D'hoker A Continuum of Fragmentation. Distinguishing the Short Story Cycle from the Composite Novel 3 Anja Müller-Wood Bio-Cognitive Constraints in the Reception of Short Story Cycles 4 Corinna Norrick-Rühl Short Story Collections and Cycles in the British Literary Marketplace II: Traditions 5 Mark Ittensohn A "shred and patch school of writing": The Emergence of the Modern Short Story Cycle in Late Romantic Britain 6 Rainer Emig Recovered Coherence in an Early Short Story Cycle: Rudyard Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills 7 Gerri Kimber A Cycle of Dislocation: Katherine Mansfield, Modernism, and Proto-postcolonialism III: Transformations 8 Michael C. Frank Two Worlds in One Book: Ways of Sunlight and the Migrant Short Story Cycle 9 Louisa Hadley The Fateful Cycle of Fairytales: Reading A. S. Byatt's The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye 10 Janine Hauthal Unity in Diversity? Imagining Europe in Julian Barnes's Cross Channel 11 Valerie O'Riordan Traumatic Cycles: Ali Smith and A. L. Kennedy 12 Jacob Hovind Kazuo Ishiguro's Portraits of Paralysis 13 Roxanne Harde "Consuming themselves endlessly": Women and Power in Livi Michael's Short Story Cycle 14 Emma Young Re-framing Feminist Politics in Helen Simpson's A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories 15 Gerd Bayer The Short Narrative Form in David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks List of Contributors
Table of Contents 1 Patrick Gill, Florian Kläger Introduction: Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle I: Theory 2 Elke D'hoker A Continuum of Fragmentation. Distinguishing the Short Story Cycle from the Composite Novel 3 Anja Müller-Wood Bio-Cognitive Constraints in the Reception of Short Story Cycles 4 Corinna Norrick-Rühl Short Story Collections and Cycles in the British Literary Marketplace II: Traditions 5 Mark Ittensohn A "shred and patch school of writing": The Emergence of the Modern Short Story Cycle in Late Romantic Britain 6 Rainer Emig Recovered Coherence in an Early Short Story Cycle: Rudyard Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills 7 Gerri Kimber A Cycle of Dislocation: Katherine Mansfield, Modernism, and Proto-postcolonialism III: Transformations 8 Michael C. Frank Two Worlds in One Book: Ways of Sunlight and the Migrant Short Story Cycle 9 Louisa Hadley The Fateful Cycle of Fairytales: Reading A. S. Byatt's The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye 10 Janine Hauthal Unity in Diversity? Imagining Europe in Julian Barnes's Cross Channel 11 Valerie O'Riordan Traumatic Cycles: Ali Smith and A. L. Kennedy 12 Jacob Hovind Kazuo Ishiguro's Portraits of Paralysis 13 Roxanne Harde "Consuming themselves endlessly": Women and Power in Livi Michael's Short Story Cycle 14 Emma Young Re-framing Feminist Politics in Helen Simpson's A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories 15 Gerd Bayer The Short Narrative Form in David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks List of Contributors
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