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June 19, 2022

Centrifugal and Centripetal Narrative Strategies in the Short Story Composite and the Episode Film

The article discusses the unifying and disintegrating narrative strategies of a form of episodic narrative called the short story composite, or short story cycle, and will be compared with the episode […]

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June 17, 2022

Expanded Universes in Science Fiction: A Matter of Integration

Still lacking theoretical definitions, expanded universes are an artistic phenomenon often seen in science fiction literature as well as innarratives in other media. This text proposes a mechanism to explain how […]

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June 6, 2022

Short story cycles of the Americas, a transitional post-colonial form

a study of V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street, Ernest Gaines’s Bloodline, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Los Funerales de Mama Grande This dissertation is a study of three short story cycles which are […]

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June 5, 2022

(Re-)inventing our selves/ourselves : identity and community in contemporary South African short fiction cycles

In this study I focus on a number of collections of short fiction by the South African writers Joël Matlou, Sindiwe Magona, Zoë Wicomb and Ivan Vladislavić, all of which evince […]

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May 31, 2022

Open destinies : modern American women and the short story cycle

This thesis examines the juncture between the short story cycle form and gender politics. It explores how twentieth-century women from the United States have been using the form to represent and […]

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May 31, 2022

Watermark: a short-story cycle with an introduction to the genre and scholarship including a close reading of the text

Watermark, a short story cycle, as defined by Forest Ingram, Susan Garland Mann, and James Nagel, consists of twenty-five individually complete and interrelated stories and vignettes. Along with common characters and […]

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May 23, 2022

Overcoming the ‘Crisis of Nonrelation’ through Formal Innovation: Aboriginal Short Story Cycles (book chapter)

Excerpt from the introduction: Given the economic deprivation and social exclusion that many Indigenous Australians face, it comes as little surprise that issues such as poverty, domestic violence, alcoholism and drug […]

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May 23, 2022

Story Cycles (chapter from American Literature in Transition 1990-2000)

From the first paragraph: In 2001, James Nagel observed that “never has the genre of the short-story cycle been used with greater force or variety than in the American fiction of […]

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May 19, 2022

Consuming the Short-Story Cycle: Gender, Class and Consumption in Literary Meals

The short story has evolved to interweave the colorful clash of cultures within its representational terrains. In this paper I will argue that the short story cycle is embedded with opportunities […]

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May 17, 2022

“Traits Don’t Change, States of Mind Do”: Tracking Olive in Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge consists of thirteen interrelated chapters, each one involving to some degree the novel’s eponymous character. Readers are presented to Olive both mediated through other characters’ viewpoints, and with more […]

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