Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle

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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.

1 Patrick Gill, Florian Klager Introduction: Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle I: Theory 2 Elke D’hoker A Continuum of Fragmentation. Distinguishing the Short Story Cycle from the Composite Novel 3 Anja Muller-Wood Bio-Cognitive Constraints in the Reception of Short Story Cycles 4 Corinna Norrick-Ruhl Short Story Collections and Cycles in the British Literary Marketplace II: Traditions 5 Mark Ittensohn A "shred and patch school of writing": The Emergence of the Modern Short Story Cycle in Late Romantic Britain 6 Rainer Emig Recovered Coherence in an Early Short Story Cycle: Rudyard Kipling’s Plain Tales from the Hills 7 Gerri Kimber A Cycle of Dislocation: Katherine Mansfield, Modernism, and Proto-postcolonialism III: Transformations 8 Michael C. Frank Two Worlds in One Book: Ways of Sunlight and the Migrant Short Story Cycle 9 Louisa Hadley The Fateful Cycle of Fairytales: Reading A. S. Byatt’s The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye 10 Janine Hauthal Unity in Diversity? Imagining Europe in Julian Barnes’s Cross Channel 11 Valerie O’Riordan Traumatic Cycles: Ali Smith and A. L. Kennedy 12 Jacob Hovind Kazuo Ishiguro’s Portraits of Paralysis 13 Roxanne Harde "Consuming themselves endlessly": Women and Power in Livi Michael’s Short Story Cycle 14 Emma Young Re-framing Feminist Politics in Helen Simpson’s A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories 15 Gerd Bayer The Short Narrative Form in David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks List of Contributors

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Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle 构建英国短篇小说周期连贯性 东方文学

Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle

构建英国短篇小说周期连贯性
东方文学