“A House of Gravel” is a short-story cycle exploring the relationships between a family of four and the hardships wrought by those relationships, as well as their own individual hardships. Partially, “A House of Gravel”...
The Sanctuary in Polish Hill, a short story cycle set in the late 1900s to 2008, surrounds a women’s shelter in Polish Hill, Pittsburgh, PA. Ruta Laksa, a second-generation Polish immigrant, moves to the neighborhood...
Abstract in French here. First paragraph: As became increasingly evident in the 1960s and beyond, female identity is fraught with conflicting role choices and continuing pressure to fulfill social expectations despite increased career demands. The...
(Abstract not available) from Davis, R. G. (2019) “Visions of a Homeland in Two Recent Chinese American Short Story Cycles: Andrea Louie’s Moon Cakes and Wang Ping’s American Visa”, Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos, (5). You...
This essay includes an analysis of my creative process original short story collection Go Your Own Way. A short story cycle is a collection of short stories that often contain the same characters or characters...
The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult...
NOTE: The original abstract of this dissertation is not readable. Therefore I have elected to post an excerpt from its introduction instead: The Short Story Cycle in Ireland (1890s – present): Introduction The short story...
Lesley Harrison’s practice-led PhD is titled ‘Behind the Boomgate: A short story cycle and accompanying exegesis’. The short story cycle shares the experiences of baby boomers living permanently in a caravan park. The accompanying exegesis...
First paragraph: The editors of this special section asked a panel of experts to weigh in on questions related to the short story, the short story cycle, genre and form, emotion, affect, and effects on...
First paragraph: I n 1990 Eli Yassif published a ground-breaking article, “The Cycle of Tales in Rabbinic Literature,” in Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature. Yassif argued that the phenomenon of the story-cycle, namely, a cluster...
“Glimpses of the World: The Vignette in 21st-Century American Fiction” examines the relationship between contemporary digital and print fictions that center their critique in the short form of the vignette. Delineating a media archeology of...
First paragraph: The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed the publication of several works of fiction that, though marketed as novels, wear that label rather uneasily. These works are highly fragmented texts, made...