The short story
Subtitle: an introduction
By: Paul March-Russell.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780748627745; 9780748627738
Subjects: Short story
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins: from folk-tale to art-tale; title: Riddles, hoaxes and conundrums; title: Memory, modernity and orality; title: Poe, O. Henry and the well-made story; title: Economies of scale: the short story in England; title: Brought to book: the anthology and its uses; title: Between the lines: dissidence and the short story; title: Enclosed readings: the short story and the academy; title: Modernism and the short story; title: The short story cycle; title: Character parts: identity in the short story; title: Localities: centres and margins; title: Tales of the city; title: Romance and the fragment; title: Ghost stories and other hauntings; title: Popular short fictions; title: The experimental text; title: Postmodernism and the short story; title: Minimalism/dirty realism/hyperrealism; title: Voyages out: the postcolonial short story.