A companion to the British and Irish short story
A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story provides a comprehensive treatment of short fiction writing and chronicles its development in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Provides a comprehensive treatment of the short story in Britain and Ireland as it developed over the period 18...
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| Format | eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2008.
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| Series | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
56. |
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781444304787 9781444304770 9781405184892 9781405145374 |
| Physical Description | 1 online zdroj (xvi, 571 stran) |
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Table of Contents:
- Notes on Contributors; Preface; Part I: 1880-1945; Introduction; 1: The British and Irish Short Story to 1945; Topics and Genres; 2: The Story of Colonial Adventure; 3: Responses to War: 1914-1918 and 1939-1945; 4: Irish Short Fiction: 1880-1945; 5: The Detective and Crime Story: 1880-1945; 6: The British and Irish Ghost Story and Tale of the Supernatural: 1880-1945; 7: Finding a Voice: Women Writing the Short Story (to 1945); 8: Rudyard Kipling's Art of the Short Story; Reading Individual Authors and Texts
- 9: Robert Louis Stevenson: "The Bottle Imp," "The Beach of Falesá," and "Markheim"10: Thomas Hardy: Wessex Tales; 11: Joseph Conrad: "The Secret Sharer" and "An Outpost of Progress"; 12: The Short Stories of Hector Hugh Munro ("Saki"); 13: Paralysis Re-considered: James Joyce's Dubliners; 14: H.G. Wells's Short Stories: "The Country of the Blind" and "The Door in the Wall"; 15: D.H. Lawrence's Short Stories: "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" and "The Rocking Horse Winner"; 16: Virginia Woolf: "Kew Gardens" and "The Legacy"; 17: Katherine Mansfield: "The Garden Party" and "Marriage à la Mode"
- 18: Frank O'Connor: "Guests of the Nation" and "My Oedipus Complex"19: The Short Stories of Liam O'Flaherty; 20: W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden Stories; 21: Elizabeth Bowen: "The Demon Lover" and "Mysterious Kôr"; Part II: 1945-the Present; Introduction; 22: The British and Irish Short Story: 1945-Present; Topics and Genres; 23: New Identities: The Irish Short Story since 1945; 24: Redefining Englishness: British Short Fiction from 1945 to the Present; 25: Scottish Short Stories (post 1945)
- 26: Hybrid Voices and Visions: The Short Stories of E.A. Markham, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Patricia Duncker, and Jackie Kay27: The Anglo-Jewish Short Story since the Holocaust; 28: Feminist Voices: Women's Short Fiction after 1945; 29: British Gay and Lesbian Short Stories; 30: Science Fiction and Fantasy after 1945: Beyond Pulp Fiction; 31: Experimental Short Fiction in Britain since 1945; Reading Individual Authors and Texts; 32: The Short Stories of Julian Maclaren-Ross; 33: Alan Sillitoe: "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner."
- 34: The Short Stories of Elizabeth Taylor35: The Short Fiction of V.S. Pritchett; 36: Edna O'Brien: "A Rose in the Heart of New York"; 37: Doris Lessing: African Stories; 38: The Desire for Clarity: Seán O'Faoláin's "Lovers of the Lake"; 39: The Short Stories of Muriel Spark; 40: Jean Rhys: "Let Them Call It Jazz"; 41: George Mackay Brown: "Witch," "Master Halcrow, Priest," "A Time to Keep," and "The Tarn and the Rosary"; 42: William Trevor: Uncertain Grounds for Assured Art; 43: John McGahern: Nightlines; 44: The Clinking of an Identity Disk: Bernard MacLaverty's "Walking the Dog"
- 45: Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber: A World Transformed by Imagination and Desire
- Adventures in Anarcho-Surrealism