Research Catalog

Title

Constructing coherence in the British short story cycle / edited by Patrick Gill & Florian Kläge.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2018.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gill, Patrick (Literary critic)
• Kläger, Florian

Description

vi, 273 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Uniform Title

Literary criticism and cultural theory.

Subjects

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Cycles (Literature)
• Short stories, English > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: Constructing coherence in the British short story cycle / Patrick Gill, Florian Kläger -- A continuum of fragmentation. Distinguishing the Short story cycle from the composite novel / Elke D'hoker -- Bio-cognitive constraints in the reception of short story cycles / Anja Müller-Wood -- Short story collections and cycles in the British literary marketplace / Corinna Norrick-Rühl -- A "shred and patch school of writing": The emergence of the modern short story cycle in late Romantic Britain / Mark Ittensohn -- Recovered coherence in an early short story cycle: Rudyard Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills / Rainer Emig -- A cycle of dislocation: Katherine Mansfield, modernism, and proto-postcolonialism / Gerri Kimber -- Two worlds in one book: Ways of Sunlight and the Migrant Short Story Cycle / Michael C. Frank -- The fateful cycle of fairytales: Reading A. S. Byatt's The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye / Louisa Hadley -- Unity in diversity? Imagining Europe in Julian Barnes's Cross Channel / Janine Hauthal -- Traumatic cycles: Ali Smith and A. L. Kennedy / Valerie O'Riordan -- Kazuo Ishiguro's portraits of paralysis / Jacob Hovind -- "Consuming themselves endlessly": Women and power in Livi Michael's short story cycle / Roxanne Harde -- Re-framing feminist politics in Helen Simpson's A Bunch of Fives: Selected stories / Emma Young -- The short narrative form in David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks / Gerd Bayer.

Call Number

JFE 18-9290

ISBN

• 9781138503885
• 1138503886

LCCN

2018005612

OCLC

1022516810

Title

Constructing coherence in the British short story cycle / edited by Patrick Gill & Florian Kläge.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Literary criticism and cultural theory.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Gill, Patrick (Literary critic), editor.

Kläger, Florian, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-9290