Short Story Cycles

Author: Christopher Marcus

Cycles, Recueils, Macrotexts. The Short Story Collection in a Comparative Perspective

An introduction to theoretical perspectives on the short story cycle in the English, French and Italian traditions....
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To Relate, to Read, to Separate A Poetics of the Collection and A Poetics of Diffraction

How the concept of a poetics of the collection allows for a more expansive and flexible analysis of short story collections....
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Unresolved Tensions: William Faulkner’s The Unvanquished as a Short-Story Cycle

The case for Faulkner's The Unvanquished as a short story cycle, and how the incoherence of the form rejects the nostalgic view of the South....
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