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