Short Story Cycles
Research Archive

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

Recent additions:

The Woman Warrior: A Question of Genre

Discussing Maxine Hong Kingston's classic and insights about the relation between memoir and story cycles
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Narrating the Transnational: Refugee Routes, Communities of Shared Fate, and Transnarrative Form

About the story cycle's potential for encompassing the transnational political relations produced by warfare and displacement.
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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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