The short story
By: edited by Ailsa Cox
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781847186690
Subjects: Short story; Fiction; History and criticism
Description: Annotation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Small in a way that a bullet is small": reflections on writing short stories / A.L. Kennedy; title: The short story: what is it exactly, what do we want to do with it, and how do we intend to do it? / John Beevers; title: The whole story: the contemporary short story in sequence / Lucy Collins & Kathy Flann; title: Notes towards the definition of the short-short story / Ashley Chantler; title: How the listener was lured in: what makes a good crime short story? / Joanne Reardon; title: East, West, and harmony: the short story as a space for translation / Jenni Ramone; title: Reflected images: Calvino, Borges and writing a short story / Elizabeth Ingrams; title: Anita Desai's "The rooftop dwellers": an alternative subaltern history / Karen D'Souza; title: Treasure from the colonial past : a reading of Sir Frank Swettenham's "A silhouette" and "A mezzotint" / Mohamad Rashidi Pakri; title: The subversive Cinderella: power dynamics and cultural imperialism in the short stories of Dorothy Edwards / Claire Flay; title: The novelist on holiday: Martin Amis and the short story / Michael Great Britainney; title: Ray Bradbury: the martian storyteller / Andrew Oldham; title: Japanese female sadism: a comparative reading of Junichiro Tanizaki's "Tattoo" and Hitomi Kanehara's "Snakes and earrings" / Reuben Walsh; title: Oh, whistle and I"ll come to you, my lad / Helen Newall.