Short Story Cycles

Short Story Cycles
Research Archive

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

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Writing ritual, resisting resolution: The short story cycles of Hemingway and Steinbeck

The article argues that Hemingway and Steinbeck used fishing and marine biology to resist narrative resolution, exploring war's effects on the psyche in their short story cycles....
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Literatura discontinua: lacolección de textos y sustensiones con el soporte y loshabitus de lectura

A Ph.D. in Spanish that discusses Anglo-American short story cycle (studies) traditions as well as Italian, French and Spanish traditions...
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Doing it by the Book – paratext in British fiction

About the uses of paratext in determining genre in contemporary British fiction, including for short story cycles....
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Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place: Evolution of a Short Story Cycle

An analysis of The Women of Brewster Place highlighting the cycle's contribution to the narrative of community....
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The short story cycle: Broadening the perspective

Key examples of short story cycles in English literature and attempts to establish a literary tradition for this genre....
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Story cycles and climate disaster: Finding alternative structures for literary realist narratives in the Anthropocene

How short story cycles about climate use the non-linear form to express the interconnectedness of human and non-human elements....
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