Title Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle / editors, Patrick Gill & Florian Kläger

Published New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 273 pages) Series Literary criticism and cultural theory Literary criticism and cultural theory. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 1 Introduction: Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle; SECTION I: Theory; 2 A Continuum of Fragmentation: Distinguishing the Short Story Cycle from the Composite Novel; 3 Bio-Cognitive Constraints in the Reception of Short Story Cycles; 4 Short Story Collections and Cycles in the British Literary Marketplace; SECTION II: Traditions; 5 A "shred and patch school of writing": The Emergence of the Modern Short Story Cycle in Late Romantic Britain 6 Recovered Coherence in an Early Short Story Cycle: Rudyard Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills7 A Cycle of Dislocation: Katherine Mansfield, Modernism, and Proto-Postcolonialism; SECTION III: Transformations; 8 Two Worlds in One Book: Ways of Sunlight and the Migrant Short Story Cycle; 9 The Fateful Cycle of Fairy Tales: Reading A.S. Byatt's The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye; 10 Unity in Diversity? Imagining Europe in Julian Barnes's Cross Channel; 11 Traumatic Cycles: Ali Smith and A.L. Kennedy; 12 Kazuo Ishiguro's Portraits of Paralysis 13 "Consuming themselves endlessly": Women and Power in Livi Michael's Short Story Cycle14 Re-Framing Feminist Politics in Helen Simpson's A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories; 15 The Short narrative Form in David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks; List of Contributors; Index 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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Short stories, English -- History and criticism English fiction -- History and criticism Cycles (Literature) Literary form -- History LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Cycles (Literature) English fiction. Literary form. Short stories, English. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book Author Gill, Patrick (Literary critic), editor. Kläger, Florian, editor. ISBN 9781315145617 1315145618 9781351382137 1351382136 9781351382144 1351382144 9781351382120 1351382128

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