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The Mini-Cycle (Paperback)
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The Mini-Cycle (Paperback)
Series: Routledge New Textual Studies in Literature
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While scholars have been studying the short story cycle for some
time now, this book discusses a form that has never before been
identified and named, let alone analyzed: the mini-cycle. A
mini-cycle is a short story cycle made up, in most cases, of only
two or three stories. This study looks at mini-cycles spanning the
period from Anton Chekhov's "little trilogy" (1898) to the
"Alphinland" stories in Margaret Atwood's Stone Mattress (2014),
including texts by such authors as Stephen Leacock, Alice Munro,
Robert Olen Butler, and Clark Blaise. Consideration is also given
to marginal examples, like Sherwood Anderson's "Godliness-A Tale in
Four Parts" (1919), which can be seen as one story or four distinct
texts unified under one title, and to what is called the "exploded"
mini-cycle: one whose component stories are published with
intervening stories between them rather than consecutively. For
each mini-cycle, the analysis is based on close reading of both the
linking elements-character, imagery, symbolism, and so forth-and
the rhetorical and aesthetic effects of the mini-cycle's being made
up of distinct stories rather than constructed as one long
narrative.
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