Author : Jennifer J. Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474423957
Explores the contradictory position of Arabic being both the official language and marginalized in Israel
Author : Jennifer J. Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474423949
This work spans two centuries to tell the history of a genre that includes both major and marginal authors, from Washington Irving through William Faulkner to Jhumpa Lahiri.
Author : Susan Mann
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
This guide is an excellent beginning for the study of a little-recognized genre and will be needed by all academic libraries. Choice During the 1970s many distinguished writers began experimenting with the short story cycle, a literary form that achieved prominence in the early decades of the century through such works as James Joyce's Dubliners and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. Despite the growing interest of both writers and readers, no theoretical work has been done on this genre in the past ten years. The Short Story Cycle provides a wide-ranging survey of the subject, offering detailed analyses of nine classic short story cycles and an annotated listing of over 120 others, many by contemporary authors. In addition, the introduction includes a history of the genre and its related forms as well as a discussion of conventions associated with the cycle. Short story cycles by Joyce, Anderson, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Welty, O'Connor, and Updike are described in individual chapters. These works illustrate the genre's diversity and vitality, ranging from cycles that are explicitly related through chronology, plot, and character to collections that reveal subtler, implicit unities. The author looks at the ways different writers use repeated or developed characters, themes, myth, imagery, setting, point of view, and plot or chronology to create the sense of a larger whole. Chapter bibliographies supply information on relevant critical writings as well as biographical and autobiographical materials. The volume concludes with an annotated listing of important twentieth-century short-story cycles by American, British, European, Canadian, Australian, Polish, Soviet, and Latin American writers.
Author : Forrest L. Ingram
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,40 MB
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110888548
Author : Patrick Gill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351382136
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 approaches the form from the point of view of genre theory, cognitive literary studies, and book studies. It is followed by investigations of hitherto neglected aspects of the generic tradition of the British short story cycle and how they relate to the contemporary outlook of the form. Readings of individual contemporary cycles, illustrating the form’s multifaceted uses from the presentation of sexual identities to politics and trauma, make up the third and most substantial part of the volume, placing its focus squarely on the past decades. Unique in its combination of a focus on the literary traditions, politics and markets of the UK with a thorough examination of the genre’s manifold formal and thematic potentials, the volume explores what is at the heart of the short story cycle as a literary form: the constant negotiation between unity and separateness, collective and individual, of coherence and autonomy.
Author : Maggie Dunn
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Critics have been aware for years that such literary works as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses and James Joyce's Dubliners do not fit comfortably into established genres. By proposing the name composite novel and a supportive, comprehensive theory of genre for these works, Maggie Dunn and Ann Morris break new critical ground. In tracing the development of this literary genre in the 19th and 20th centuries throughout the world, the authors offer not only a new way to understand these classics, but also a useful approach to the best contemporary fiction such as N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain and Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate.
Author : James Nagel
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 36,39 MB
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807129616
James Nagel offers the first systematic history and definition of the short-story cycle as exemplified in contemporary American fiction, bringing attention to the format's wide appeal among various ethnic groups. He examines in detail eight recent manifestations of the genre, all praised by critics while uniformly misidentified as novels. Nagel proposes that the short-story cycle, with its concentric as opposed to linear plot development possibilities, lends itself particularly well to exploring themes of ethnic assimilation, which mirror some of the major issues facing American society today.
Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1082 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316739147
The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the origins and generic evolution of the English short story to the present day, and written by international experts in the field, this book covers numerous transnational and historical connections between writers, modes and forms of transmission. Suitable for English literature students and scholars of the English short story generally, it will become a standard work of reference in its field.
Author : Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1338306642
An enchanting story from Maggie Stiefvater featuring Opal, Ronan, and Adam from her bestselling Raven Cycle, taking place after the events of The Raven King.
Author : Zane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439186707
An eagerly awaited collection of stories dealing with domestic abuse, edited by the New York Times bestselling author Zane. Breaking the Cycle is a stunning and moving anthology of stories, each of which focuses on an aspect of domestic abuse. This powerful collection is sure to serve as a wake-up call for people either dealing with a domestic abuse situation, or those watching someone else endure it. In the title story, Zane describes the turmoil that a young girl suffers at the hands of her stepfather. The girl and her mother plan their escape, but at the last minute the mother falters. In D.V. Bernard's "The Lonely Echoes of My Youth," readers are introduced to a young boy raising himself on the fringes of a drug-infested neigborhood. Nane Quartay's provocative story, "The Grindstone," describes a boy who witnesses a brutal murder which will have far-reaching effects on him and his family. Tracy Price-Thompson weaves a powerful tale in "The Stranger" when a woman constantly abused by her husband finds inner strength after a brutal attack. Collen Dixon's "The Break of Dawn" will keep readers deep in thought long after they finish reading her story about a young desperate mother terrifed that her own daughter will grow up and become victimized herself. Dywane D. Birch's "Victory Begins With Me" reflects how one woman has to struggle to get her life back to normal. Shonda Cheekes' "Silent Suffering" flips the script when a man finds himself abused by the female in his life. Newcomer J.L. Woodson's "God Does Answer Prayers" deals with a young boy fighting for his life in a hospital bed, put there by one of the people who is supposed to love him the most: a parent. These stories capture the dangerous realities of domestic abuse, while also pointing toward the steps that need to be taken to break the cycle that perpetuates it. It is sure to serve as a rallying cry for all those who desire victory over their own victimization, and a guide for understanding the complex undercurrents that make such patterns possible.
