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Short Story Theories
A Twenty-First-Century Perspective
Edited by Viorica Patea
Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, NY 2012. IX, 346 pp. (DQR Studies in
Literature 49)
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Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective problematizes
different aspects of the renewal and development of the short story.
The aim of this collection is to explore the most recent theoretical
issues raised by the short story as a genre and to offer theoretical
and practical perspectives on the form. Centering as it does on
specific authors and on the wider implications of short story poetics,
this collection presents a new series of essays that both reinterpret
canonical writers of the genre and advance new critical insights on
the most recent trends and contemporary authors. Theorizations about
genre reflect on different aspects of the short story from a
multiplicity of perspectives and take the form of historical and
aesthetic considerations, gender-centered accounts, and examinations
that attend to reader-response theory, cognitive patterns,
sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, postcolonial studies, postmodern
techniques, and contemporary uses of minimalist forms. Looking ahead,
this collection traces the evolution of the short story from Chaucer
through the Romantic writings of Poe to the postmodern developments
and into the twenty-first century.
This volume will prove of interest to scholars and graduate students
working in the fields of the short story and of literature in general.
In addition, the readability and analytical transparence of these
essays make them accessible to a more general readership interested in
fiction.
Viorica Patea is Associate Professor of English and American
Literature at the University of Salamanca. She is co-editor of
Critical Essays on the Myth of the American Adam (2001) and Modernism
Revisited: Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in
American Poetry (2007). She is author of a book on the poetry of
Sylvia Plath, Entre el mito y la realidad: Aproximación a la obra
poética de Sylvia Plath (1989); a study on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
(2000); and essays on Ezra Pound, Emily Dickinson, E.A. Poe, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, etc. In addition, she has published studies
in comparative literature in the area of witness literature of
East-European countries and has edited, translated and analyzed the
works of Nicolae Steinhardt (2007) and Ana Blandiana (2008, 2011).
Contents
Acknowledgements
The Beginnings of the Short Story and the Legacy of Poe
Viorica Patea: The Short Story: An Overview of the History and
Evolution of the Genre
Antonio López Santos: The Paratactic Structure in the Canterbury
Tales: Two Antecedents of the Modern Short Story
Peter Gibian: Anticipating Aestheticism: The Dynamics of Reading and
Reception in Poe
Erik Van Achter: Revising Theory: Poe's Legacy in Short Story Criticism
The Linguistic Turn: Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Theories and Pragmatism
Per Winther: Frames Speaking: Malamud, Silko, and the Reader
Pilar Alonso: A Cognitive Approach to Short Story Writing
Consuelo Montes-Granado: Code-Switching as a Strategy of Brevity in
Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
Borders, Postcolonialism, Orality, and Gender
Carolina Núñez-Puente: The Yellow Hybrids: Gender and Genre in
Gilman's Wallpaper
Rebeca Hernández: Short Narrations in a Letter Frame: Cases of Genre
Hybridity in Postcolonial Literature in Portuguese
María Jesús Hernáez Lerena: Short-Storyness and Eyewitnessing
Teresa Gibert: Margaret Atwood's Art of Brevity: Metaphorical
Conceptualization and Short Story Writing
Farhat Iftekharuddin: Body Politics: Female Dynamics in Isabel
Allende's The Stories of Eva Luna
Postmodernism and the Twenty-first Century: Intertextuality,
Minifiction, Serial Narration
Luisa María González Rodríguez: Intertextuality and Collage in
Barthelme's Short Fiction
Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan: Realism and Narrators in Tobias
Wolff's Short Stories
Lauro Zavala: The Boundaries of Serial Narrative
Charles May: The American Short Story in the Twenty-first Century
Notes on Contributors
Index
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