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The short story : an introduction / Paul March-Russell.

Author/creator March-Russell, Paul
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,
Descriptionix, 291 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Contents Origins: from folk-tale to art-tale -- Riddles, hoaxes and conundrums -- Memory, modernity and orality -- Poe, O. Henry and the well-made story -- Economies of scale: the short story in England -- Brought to book: the anthology and its uses -- Between the lines: dissidence and the short story -- Enclosed readings: the short story and the academy -- Modernism and the short story -- The short story cycle -- Character parts: identity in the short story -- Localities: centres and margins -- Tales of the city -- Romance and the fragment -- Ghost stories and other hauntings -- Popular short fictions -- The experimental text -- Postmodernism and the short story -- Minimalism/dirty realism/hyperrealism -- Voyages out: the postcolonial short story.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [260]-282) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009510062
ISBN9780748627745 (pbk.)
ISBN074862774X (pbk.)
ISBN9780748627738 (hardback)
ISBN0748627731 (hardback)

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