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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
The Short Story Cycle: A Marginalized Genre for Marginalized Stories. A Genre Critique of Sandra Cisneros’ Woman Hollering Creek
The short story cycle is an overlooked genre, often dismissed by critics as a short story collection. This lack of attention paid to the interconnectedness between the short stories within a […]
Female expansion and Masculine Immobilization in the Short Story Cycle
First paragraphs: As a versatile, provisional form, the short story cycle privileges plurality and openness. It contests boundaries and enacts the possibility of multiple beginnings and renewable identities. Forrest L. Ingram […]
Fleeting glimpses, fragile moments: an exegesis to Stay
This thesis consists of the creative work Stay, a collection of interlinked short stories. Although wholly self-contained, each story in Stay makes a vital contribution to the collection as a whole. […]
One Story, Many Voices: Problems of Unity in the Short-Story Cycle
Tracing the genre from its nineteenth-century antecedents to its present-day incarnations, my dissertation argues that the rise of the short-story cycle constitutes one of the most influential and generative developments in […]
Les ‘Novelle per un anno’ de Luigi Pirandello : entre projet macrotextuel et réalisation inachevée
Luigi Pirandello’s Novellas for a Year constitute one of the largest short story collections of the 20th century. The exceptional scope of this collection, which was to contain 365 short stories; […]
Eudora Welty and the Short-Story Cycle
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt: As the recipient of the 2015 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship, I stayed in Jackson and researched at the Mississippi Department of Archives […]