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The British and Irish Short Story Handbook


The British and Irish Short Story Handbook


Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks, Band 31 1. Aufl.

von: David Malcolm

23,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 27.12.2011
ISBN/EAN: 9781444355208
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 368

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<i>The British and Irish Short Story Handbook</i> 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. <ul type="disc"> <li>Guides readers through the development of the short story and critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction</li> <li>Offers a detailed discussion of the range of genres in the British and Irish short story</li> <li>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</li> <li>Provide a wide-ranging discussion of non-realist and experimental short stories</li> <li>Includes a large section on the British short story in the Second World War</li> </ul>
Acknowledgments xi <p>Preface xiii</p> <p><b>Part 1 A Brief History of the British and Irish Short Story 1</b></p> <p><b>Part 2 Issues in Short Story Criticism 33</b></p> <p>Definitions 35</p> <p>Genre? 40</p> <p>Collections 42</p> <p>Marginality 48</p> <p>Canonicity 51</p> <p>Institutions 54</p> <p><b>Part 3 Genres 57</b></p> <p>The Ghost Short Story, the Supernatural Short Story, and the Gothic Short Story 61</p> <p>The Science Fiction Short Story and the Fantasy Short Story 63</p> <p>The Fable 66</p> <p>The Short Story of Exotic Adventure 68</p> <p>The Detective and Crime Short Story 70</p> <p>The Historical Short Story 72</p> <p>The Realist Social-Psychological Short Story 74</p> <p>The Metafictional/Experimental Short Story 77</p> <p><b>Part 4 Key Authors 81</b></p> <p>Richard Aldington (1892-1962) 83</p> <p>J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) 84</p> <p>Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) 86</p> <p>Frances Bellerby (1899-1975) 88</p> <p>John Berger (born 1926) 89</p> <p>Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) 91</p> <p>Angela Carter (1940-1992) 93</p> <p>Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) 95</p> <p>Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) 97</p> <p>A. E. Coppard (1878-1957) 99</p> <p>Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870-1896) 101</p> <p>Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) 103</p> <p>Hugh Fleetwood (born 1944) 104</p> <p>Graham Greene (1904-1991) 106</p> <p>Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) 108</p> <p>Henry James (1843-1916) 110</p> <p>Gabriel Josipovici (born 1940) 112</p> <p>James Joyce (1882-1941) 114</p> <p>James Kelman (born 1946) 116</p> <p>Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) 118</p> <p>Hanif Kureishi (born 1954) 120</p> <p>James Lasdun (born 1958) 122</p> <p>Mary Lavin (1912-1996) 124</p> <p>D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) 126</p> <p>Doris Lessing (born 1919) 128</p> <p>George Mackay Brown (1921-1996) 130</p> <p>Julian Maclaren-Ross (1912-1964) 132</p> <p>Bernard MacLaverty (born 1942) 134</p> <p>Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) 136</p> <p>E. A. Markham (1939-2008) 138</p> <p>W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) 140</p> <p>Ian McEwan (born 1948) 142</p> <p>John McGahern (1934-2006) 144</p> <p>Michael Moorcock (born 1939) 146</p> <p>H. H. Munro ("Saki") (1870-1916) 148</p> <p>Frank O'Connor (1903-1966) 150</p> <p>Sean O'Faolain (1900-1991) 152</p> <p>Mollie Panter-Downes (1906-1997) 154</p> <p>T. F. Powys (1875-1953) 156</p> <p>V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) 158</p> <p>Jean Rhys (1890-1979) 161</p> <p>Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) 163</p> <p>Muriel Spark (1918-2006) 165</p> <p>Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) 167</p> <p>Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) 169</p> <p>William Trevor (born 1928) 171</p> <p>H. G. Wells (1866-1946) 173</p> <p>Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 175</p> <p>Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) 176</p> <p><b>Part 5 Key Works 177</b></p> <p>Robert Louis Stevenson, "Markheim" (1885) 179</p> <p>Oscar Wilde, "The Canterville Ghost: A Hylo-Idealistic Romance" (1887) 182</p> <p>Oscar Wilde, "The Selfish Giant" (1888) 186</p> <p>Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb" (1892) 188</p> <p>Hubert Crackanthorpe, "Modern Melodrama" (1895) 191</p> <p>Henry James, "The Altar of the Dead" (1895) 194</p> <p>Joseph Conrad, "Amy Foster" (1901) 199</p> <p>George Moore, "Home Sickness" (1903) 203</p> <p>H. G. Wells, "The Valley of Spiders" (1903) 206</p> <p>M. R. James, "Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book" (1904) 209</p> <p>H. H. Munro ("Saki"), "Sredni Vashtar" (1911) 212</p> <p>James Joyce, "An Encounter" (1914) 214</p> <p>D. H. Lawrence, "Tickets, Please" (1919) 217</p> <p>Virginia Woolf, "Kew Gardens" (1919) 221</p> <p>Katherine Mansfield, "The Stranger" (1921) 224</p> <p>A. E. Coppard, "The Higgler" (1925) 228</p> <p>Rudyard Kipling, "The Gardener" (1926) 232</p> <p>Jean Rhys, "Mannequin" (1927) 236</p> <p>W. Somerset Maugham, "Footprints in the Jungle" (1927) 239</p> <p>T. F. Powys, "John Pardy and the Waves" (1929) 242</p> <p>Sean O'Faolain, "Midsummer Night Madness" (1932) 245</p> <p>V. S. Pritchett, "Handsome Is As Handsome Does" (1938) 249</p> <p>Mollie Panter-Downes, "Goodbye, My Love" (1941) 254</p> <p>Alun Lewis, "The Last Inspection" (1942) 257</p> <p>Mary Lavin, "At Sallygap" (1943) 261</p> <p>Elizabeth Bowen, "Mysterious Kor" (1944) 265</p> <p>Julian Maclaren-Ross, "The Tape" (1944) 268</p> <p>Denton Welch, "Narcissus Bay" (1948) 271</p> <p>Frank O'Connor, "Eternal Triangle" (1954) 274</p> <p>J. G. Ballard, "The Terminal Beach" (1964) 277</p> <p>Samuel Beckett, "Lessness" (1970) 282</p> <p>Gabriel Josipovici, "Mobius the Stripper: A Topological Exercise" (1974) 285</p> <p>Michael Moorcock, "Waiting for the End of Time. . ."(1976) 289</p> <p>Sylvia Townsend Warner, "The King of Orkney's Leonardo" (1976) 292</p> <p>William Trevor, "Another Christmas" (1978) 295</p> <p>Angela Carter, "The Erl-King" (1979) 298</p> <p>Clive Sinclair, "The Evolution of the Jews" (1979) 302</p> <p>John McGahern, "The Conversion of William Kirkwood" (1985) 305</p> <p>James Kelman, "Forgetting to Mention Allende" (1987) 309</p> <p>Mary Dorcey, "A Noise from the Woodshed" (1989) 312</p> <p>James Lasdun, "Ate/Menos or The Miracle" (1992) 315</p> <p>Bernard MacLaverty, "A Silent Retreat" (1994) 319</p> <p>Hanif Kureishi, "We're Not Jews" (1995) 322</p> <p>Patricia Duncker, "Stalker" (2003) 325</p> <p>China Mieville, "Foundation" (2003) 328</p> <p>Key Collections 331</p> <p>References and Further Reading 338</p> <p>Index 345</p>
<p>"Overall, <i>The British and Irish Short Story Handbook</i> will be a useful tool in the teaching of the short story at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Further, for scholars new to the field of short story criticism it is an accessible yet well-informed entry point.  With the range of resources it offers and the succinct summaries it provides of key issues, topics and debates it collates some of the central tenets of the field. I am sure it will set people off on a fruitful journey into the ever-developing field of the British and Irish short story and short story criticism."  (<i>Irish Studies Review</i>, 21 November 2013)</p> <p>"<i>The British and Irish Short Story Handbook</i> is an excellent introduction to the short story as a literary form, but is of greater interest to the student than to a general reader, and my reservations on the entry on Warner should not detract from the fact that her inclusion in it draws her closer to mainstream literary fiction as it is taught in schools and universities. And for that we should be grateful." (<i>Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society</i>, 1 February 2013)</p> <p>"Summing Up: Recommended.  Lower-level undergraduates and general readers." (<i>Choice</i>, 1 November 2012)</p>
<p><b>David Malcolm</b> is Professor of English Literature at the University of Gdañsk. He is co-author (with Cheryl Alexander Malcolm) of <i>Jean Rhys: A Study of the Short Fiction</i> (1996), and author of <i>Understanding Ian McEwan</i> (2002), <i>Understanding Graham Swift</i> (2003) and <i>Understanding John McGahern</i> (2007). He is co-editor (with Cheryl Alexander Malcolm) of <i>British and Irish Short-Fiction Writers, 1945-2000</i>, <i>Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 319</i> (2006) and <i>A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story</i> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).</p>
<p><i>The British and Irish Short Story Handbook</i> 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>

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