The Cambridge introduction to the short story in English
The short story has become an increasingly important genre since the mid-nineteenth century. Complementing The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story, this book examines the development of the short story in Britain and other English-language literatures. It considers issues of form and...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2007.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge introductions to literature. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42002345*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. The Nineteenth Century
- Introduction: Publishers, plots and prestige
- 1. Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy; 2. Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad
- 3. The Yellow Book circle and the 1890s avant-garde
- Part II. The Modernist Short Story
- Introduction: 'Complete with missing parts'
- 4. James Joyce
- 5. Virginia Woolf
- 6. Katherine Mansfield
- 7. Samuel Beckett
- Part III. Post-Modernist Stories
- Introduction: Theories of form
- 8. Frank O'Connor and Sean O'Faolain
- 9. Elizabeth Bowen and V.S. Pritchett
- 10. Angela Carter and Ian McEwan
- Part IV. Post-colonial and Other Stories
- Introduction: A 'minor' literature?
- 11. Frank Sargeson and Marjorie Barnard
- 12. James Kelman and Chinua Achebe
- 13. Alice Munro.
