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This new edition of Writing Short Stories has been updated
throughout to include new and revised exercises, up-to-date
coverage of emerging technologies and a new glossary of key terms
and techniques. Ailsa Cox, a published short-story writer, guides
the reader through the key aspects of the craft, provides a variety
of case studies and examples of how others have approached the
genre and sets a series of engaging exercises to help hone your
skills. This inspiring book is the ideal guide for those new to the
genre or for anyone wanting to improve their technique.
New essays engaging with the developing field of literary geography
to devote attention to the "regional" settings of Munro's stories
and how they affect her characters' development or stasis. Alice
Munro, the 2013 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, has
revolutionized the architecture of the short story. This collection
of essays on Munro engages with literary geography, an emergent
interdisciplinary field that is located at the interface between
human geography and literary studies and is one of the most salient
manifestations of the ongoing spatial turn in the arts and
humanities. Critical readings of Munro's stories have labeled her
literary production "regional," since she sets the majority of her
short stories in the area of rural Ontario where she grew up. Until
now, however, little attention has been devoted to the role of that
location in the stories and tothe way that particular setting
interacts with her characters' development or stasis. This
collection contains eleven essays organized in two parts: first,
Conceptualizing Space and Place: Houses, Landscapes, Territory; and
second, Close Readings of Space and Place. Contributors: Corinne
Bigot, Lynn Blin, Giuseppina Botta, Fausto Ciompi, Ailsa Cox,
Christine Lorre-Johnston, Robert McGill, Claire Omhovere,
Anca-Raluca Radu, Eleonora Rao, Caterina Ricciardi. Christine
Lorre-Johnston is a senior lecturer in English at the Sorbonne
Nouvelle in Paris. Eleonora Rao teaches English and American
literatures at the University of Salerno.
This new edition of Writing Short Stories has been updated
throughout to include new and revised exercises, up-to-date
coverage of emerging technologies and a new glossary of key terms
and techniques. Ailsa Cox, a published short-story writer, guides
the reader through the key aspects of the craft, provides a variety
of case studies and examples of how others have approached the
genre and sets a series of engaging exercises to help hone your
skills. This inspiring book is the ideal guide for those new to the
genre or for anyone wanting to improve their technique.
Long regarded as an undervalued and marginalised genre, the short
story is undergoing a renaissance. The Short Story celebrates its
unique appeal. Practitioners and scholars address the issues facing
short story criticism in the 21st century. Author A.L. Kennedy
shares the pleasures and frustrations of writing the short story in
the literary marketplace. This is followed by an assessment of
recent attempts to promote short story readership in the UK. Other
contributors look at forms such as the short-short and the short
story sequence. The range of authors discussed includes Martin
Amis, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie and James Joyce. The short story
is the most international of genres; this is reflected in chapters
on Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino and on Japanese short
fiction. Postcolonial and translation theory are combined with the
close reading of specific texts. Neglected authors, such as the
Welsh writer Dorothy Edwards and the colonial figure Frank
Swettenham, are re-evaluated and we also consider genre writing,
with chapters on crime fiction and Ray Bradbury's Martian
Chronicles. Integrating theory and practice, The Short Story will
appeal both to writers and to students of literary criticism.
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