First paragraph: Winesburg, Ohio: A Modernist Kluge It is now a matter of fact that the nonlinear, nonhierarchical, and delocalized functioning of the network has transformed the ways that many individuals define themselves, establish themselves...
The dual nature of the short story cycle: the interdependence within the tales and the independence of each tale is unique as a literary genre, yet this produces tension between the two. The interdependence within...
First paragraph: During the summer of 1938, Sherwood Anderson began work on a new novel, but he was unhappy with the result. In a letter to a friend, he attributes the problem to form: “I...
A short article from Jennifer J Smith who is also the author of The American Short Story Cycle (2018). A review of this book can be found here. First paragraph (of the article): This spring...
Every artistic genre, over a long enough period of time, can and inevitably will evolve. In music, the guitar, once a rhythm instrument playing a purely back-up role in gospel groups, has become the driving...
This essay considers the thematic repercussions of the peculiar narrative and generic structure of The Lucky Ones as a collection of linked short stories. The form of the short story cycle allows Cusk to stage a variety...
This thesis explores the diverse and dynamic nature of creative works that exist on the spectrum between the novel and short story genres. In my exegesis I discuss the unique characteristics of the novel and...
This paper examines research on mental illness and mental health literacy as well as an examination of literary elements in interlinked stories in order to write a linked collection of five short stories about mental...
A great article about The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. In lieu of an abstract, here’s the first paragraph: When Tim O’Brien’s If I Die in a Combat Zone appeared in 1973, critics lauded...
First paragraph: Several recent books and collections of criticism focusing on short story cycles or sequences suggest that there may be a renewed interest in this hybrid genre—in some sense oxymoronic, since the brevity and...
OVER THE PAST HUNDRED years the short story cycle has become something of a sub-genre within the Canadian short story. This is not to argue that the story cycle has been ignored by American and...