Short Story Cycles

Short Story Cycles
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Including articles, monographs, dissertations, theses and more for students and researchers of the form.

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THE UNITY OF BABEL’S KONARMIJA

Excerpts Konarmija (Red Cavalry) is not simply a collection of stories, nor is it merely a series of sketches, but it is a planned short story cycle, by definition what Forrest Ingram calls “. .....

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Crossword: Trauma and the Re-Creation of Self

Stories for each of the clues to a crossword. The crossword acts as an organizing agent and one of three creative constraints which structured the creation of each story....
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‘DUBLINERS’ AND ‘GO DOWN, MOSES’: THE SHORT STORY COMPOSITE

An early analysis of Joyce's and Faulkner's works in the context of the "story composite"...
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Stones displaced: retaining the nuances of Maltese culture through short English fiction

How the short story cycle is a strong medium for communicating the lives of those from minority groups...
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The Woman Warrior: A Question of Genre

Discussing Maxine Hong Kingston's classic and insights about the relation between memoir and story cycles...
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Narrating the Transnational: Refugee Routes, Communities of Shared Fate, and Transnarrative Form

About the story cycle's potential for encompassing the transnational political relations produced by warfare and displacement....
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