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Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle (Hardcover)
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Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle (Hardcover)
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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The first major collection of essays on the contemporary British
short story cycle, this volume offers in-depth explorations of the
genre by comparing its strategies for creating coherence with those
of the novel and the short story collection, inquiring after the
ties that bind individual short stories into a cycle. A section on
theory approaches the form from the point of view of genre theory,
cognitive literary studies, and book studies. It is followed by
investigations of hitherto neglected aspects of the generic
tradition of the British short story cycle and how they relate to
the contemporary outlook of the form. Readings of individual
contemporary cycles, illustrating the form's multifaceted uses from
the presentation of sexual identities to politics and trauma, make
up the third and most substantial part of the volume, placing its
focus squarely on the past decades. Unique in its combination of a
focus on the literary traditions, politics and markets of the UK
with a thorough examination of the genre's manifold formal and
thematic potentials, the volume explores what is at the heart of
the short story cycle as a literary form: the constant negotiation
between unity and separateness, collective and individual, of
coherence and autonomy.
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