Short story theories : a twenty-first-century perspective

Author(s)

• Patea, Viorica

Bibliographic Information

Short story theories : a twenty-first-century perspective

edited by Viorica Patea

（DQR studies in literature, 49）

Rodopi, 2012

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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. Theorizations about genre reflect on different aspects of the short story from a multiplicity of perspectives and take the form of historical and aesthetic considerations, gender-centered accounts, and examinations that attend to reader-response theory, cognitive patterns, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, postcolonial studies, postmodern techniques, and contemporary uses of minimalist forms. Looking ahead, this collection traces the evolution of the short story from Chaucer through the Romantic writings of Poe to the postmodern developments and into the twenty-first century. This volume will prove of interest to scholars and graduate students working in the fields of the short story and of literature in general. In addition, the readability and analytical transparence of these essays make them accessible to a more general readership interested in fiction.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements The Beginnings of the Short Story and the Legacy of Poe Viorica Patea: The Short Story: An Overview of the History and Evolution of the Genre Antonio Lopez Santos: The Paratactic Structure in the Canterbury Tales: Two Antecedents of the Modern Short Story Peter Gibian: Anticipating Aestheticism: The Dynamics of Reading and Reception in Poe Erik Van Achter: Revising Theory: Poe's Legacy in Short Story Criticism The Linguistic Turn: Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Theories and Pragmatism Per Winther: Frames Speaking: Malamud, Silko, and the Reader Pilar Alonso: A Cognitive Approach to Short Story Writing Consuelo Montes-Granado: Code-Switching as a Strategy of Brevity in Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories Borders, Postcolonialism, Orality, and Gender Carolina Nunez-Puente: The Yellow Hybrids: Gender and Genre in Gilman's Wallpaper Rebeca Hernandez: Short Narrations in a Letter Frame: Cases of Genre Hybridity in Postcolonial Literature in Portuguese Maria Jesus Hernaez Lerena: Short-Storyness and Eyewitnessing Teresa Gibert: Margaret Atwood's Art of Brevity: Metaphorical Conceptualization and Short Story Writing Farhat Iftekharuddin: Body Politics: Female Dynamics in Isabel Allende's The Stories of Eva Luna Postmodernism and the Twenty-first Century: Intertextuality, Minifiction, Serial Narration Luisa Maria Gonzalez Rodriguez: Intertextuality and Collage in Barthelme's Short Fiction Santiago Rodriguez Guerrero-Strachan: Realism and Narrators in Tobias Wolff's Short Stories Lauro Zavala: The Boundaries of Serial Narrative Charles May: The American Short Story in the Twenty-first Century Notes on Contributors Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB21190550
• ISBN:
  • 9789042035645
• LCCN: 2013443902
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Pages/Volumes: 346 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN3373
  • DC23 : 808.3/1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Short story
  • LCSH : Fiction -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00915545