Short Story Theories : A Twenty-First-Century Perspective
Viorica. Patea
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Amsterdam : : Editions Rodopi, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (345 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; I. The Beginnings of the Short Story and the Legacy of Poe; The Short Story: An Overview of the History and Evolution of the Genre; The Paratactic Structure in the Canterbury Tales: Two Antecedents of the Modern Short Story; Anticipating Aestheticism: The Dynamics of Reading and Reception in Poe; Revising Theory: Poe's Legacy in Short Story Criticism; II. The Linguistic Turn: Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Theories and Pragmatism; Frames Speaking: Malamud, Silko, and the Reader; A Cognitive Approach to Short Story Writing. - Code-Switching as a Strategy of Brevity in Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek and Other StoriesIII. Borders, Postcolonialism, Orality, and Gender; The Yellow Hybrids: Gender and Genre in Gilman's Wallpaper; Short Narrations in a Letter Frame: Cases of Genre Hybridity in Postcolonial Literature in Portuguese; Short-Storyness and Eyewitnessing; Margaret Atwood's Art of Brevity: Metaphorical Conceptualization and Short Story Writing; Body Politics: Female Dynamics in Isabel Allende's The Stories of Eva Luna. - IV. Postmodernism and the Twenty-first Century: Intertextuality, Minifiction, Serial NarrationIntertextuality and Collage in Barthelme's Short Fiction; Realism and Narrators in Tobias Wolff's Short Stories; The Boundaries of Serial Narrative; The American Short Story in the Twenty-first Century; Notes on Contributors; Index. - Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective problematizes different aspects of the renewal and development of the short story. The aim of this collection is to explore the most recent theoretical issues raised by the short story as a genre and to offer theoretical and practical perspectives on the form. Centering as it does on specific authors and on the wider implications of short story poetics, this collection presents a new series of essays that both reinterpret canonical writers of the genre and advance new critical insights on the most recent trends and contemporary authors.
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| ISBN | 9789042035645
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