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The British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers
through the development of the short story and the unique critical
issues involved in discussions of short fiction. It includes a
wide-ranging analysis of non-canonical and non-realist writers as
well as the major authors and their works, providing a
comprehensive and much-needed appraisal of this area.
Guides readers through the development of the short story and
critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction
Offers a detailed discussion of the range of genres in the
British and Irish short story
Includes extensive analysis of non-canonical writers, such as
Hubert Crackanthorpe, Ella D'Arcy, T.F. Powys, A.E. Coppard,
Julian Maclaren-Ross, Mollie Panter-Downes, Denton Welch, and
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Provide a wide-ranging discussion of non-realist and
experimental short stories
Includes a large section on the British short story in the
Second World War
Autorentext
David Malcolm is Professor of English Literature at the University of Gdañsk. He is co-author (with Cheryl Alexander Malcolm) of Jean Rhys: A Study of the Short Fiction (1996), and author of Understanding Ian McEwan (2002), Understanding Graham Swift (2003) and Understanding John McGahern (2007). He is co-editor (with Cheryl Alexander Malcolm) of British and Irish Short-Fiction Writers, 1945-2000, Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 319 (2006) and A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).
Klappentext
The British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers through the development of the short story and the critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction. By including in-depth analysis of non-canonical writers and non-realist writers alongside that of major authors and their works, the handbook offers a comprehensive and much-needed appraisal of this area of literary study.
The guide contains a brief history of the development of the form since the 1880s, with discussions of central texts by, amongst others, Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, Jean Rhys, V. S. Pritchett, James Sheridan Le Fanu, and Samuel Beckett. There follows an examination of some central issues in contemporary short-story criticism: definition of the short story; its status as a genre; the collection as an interpretive context; the importance of the motif of marginality; canonicity; and the role of institutions in the form's development. It continues with a discussion on the range of genres in the twentieth and twenty-first century short story, with particular attention to the interplay of realist and non-realist genres.
The book also examines the work of selected major short-story writers. Irish authors considered throughout the book include George Moore, Seán O'Faoláin, John McGahern, William Trevor, and Mary Dorcey; discussion of writers active in mainland Britain includes Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Bowen, Somerset Maugham, J. G. Ballard, and Angela Carter.
Inhalt
Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiii
Part 1 A Brief History of the British and Irish Short Story 1
Part 2 Issues in Short Story Criticism 33
Definitions 35
Genre? 40
Collections 42
Marginality 48
Canonicity 51
Institutions 54
Part 3 Genres 57
The Ghost Short Story, the Supernatural Short Story, and the Gothic Short Story 61
The Science Fiction Short Story and the Fantasy Short Story 63
The Fable 66
The Short Story of Exotic Adventure 68
The Detective and Crime Short Story 70
The Historical Short Story 72
The Realist Social-Psychological Short Story 74
The Metafictional/Experimental Short Story 77
Part 4 Key Authors 81
Richard Aldington (1892-1962) 83
J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) 84
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) 86
Frances Bellerby (1899-1975) 88
John Berger (born 1926) 89
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) 91
Angela Carter (1940-1992) 93
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) 95
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) 97
A. E. Coppard (1878-1957) 99
Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870-1896) 101
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) 103
Hugh Fleetwood (born 1944) 104
Graham Greene (1904-1991) 106
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) 108
Henry James (1843-1916) 110
Gabriel Josipovici (born 1940) 112
James Joyce (1882-1941) 114
James Kelman (born 1946) 116
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) 118
Hanif Kureishi (born 1954) 120
James Lasdun (born 1958) 122
Mary Lavin (1912-1996) 124
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) 126
Doris Lessing (born 1919) 128
George Mackay Brown (1921-1996) 130
Julian Maclaren-Ross (1912-1964) 132
Bernard MacLaverty (born 1942) 134
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) 136
E. A. Markham (1939-2008) 138
W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) 140
Ian McEwan (born 1948) 142
John McGahern (1934-2006) 144
Michael Moorcock (born 1939) 146
H. H. Munro ("Saki") (1870-1916) 148
Frank O'Connor (1903-1966) 150
Sean O'Faolain (1900-1991) 152
Mollie Panter-Downes (1906-1997) 154
T. F. Powys (1875-1953) 156
V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) 158
Jean Rhys (1890-1979) 161
Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) 163
Muriel Spark (1918-2006) 165
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) 167
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) 169
William Trevor (born 1928) 171
H. G. Wells (1866-1946) 173
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 175
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) 176
Part 5 Key Works 177
Robert Louis Stevenson, "Markheim" (1885) 179
Oscar Wilde, "The Canterville Ghost: A Hylo-Idealistic Romance" (1887) 182
Oscar Wilde, "The Selfish Giant" (1888) 186
Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb" (1892) 188
Hubert Crackanthorpe, "Modern Melodrama" (1895) 191
Henry James, "The Altar of the Dead" (1895) 194
Joseph Conrad, "Amy Foster" (1901) 199
George Moore, "Home Sickness" (1903) 203
H. G. Wells, "The Valley of Spiders" (1903) 206
M. R. James, "Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book" (1904) 209
H. H. Munro ("Saki"), "Sredni Vashtar" (1911) 212
James Joyce, "An Encounter" (1914) 214
D. H. Lawrence, "Tickets, Please" (1919) 217
Virginia Woolf, "Kew Gardens" (1919) 221
Katherine Mansfield, "The Stranger" (1921) 224
A. E. Coppard, "The Higgler" (1925) 228
Rudyard Kipling, "The Gardener" (1926) 232
Jean Rhys, "Mannequin" (1927) 236
W. Somerset Maugham, "Footprints in the Jungle" (1927) 239
T. F. Powys, "John Pardy and the Waves" (1929) 242 Sean O'Faolain, "Midsummer Night Madness" (1932) 245...