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To Life
(Hardcover)
Marsha Casper Cook
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R487
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Start Me Up
(Hardcover)
Jeannie Edmunds
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R676
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This book proposes a comparative approach to the supernatural short
stories of Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant. It
offers an alternative to predominantly novel-centric and
Anglo-centric perspectives on literary pre-modernism by
investigating a transnational and multilingual connection between
genre, theme and theory, i.e., between the modern short story, the
supernatural and the problem of knowledge. Incorporating a close
analysis of the literary texts into a discussion of their
historical context, the book argues that Machado, James and
Maupassant explore and reinvent the supernatural short story as a
metafictional genre. This modernized and innovative form allows
them to challenge the dichotomies and conventions of realist and
supernatural fiction, inviting their past and present readers to
question common assumptions on reality and literary representation.
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