Day: January 29, 2022

Born in the Workshop: The MFA and the Short-Story Cycle

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Redeeming the Short Story Cycle: Evolution of One of the Last Literary Genres

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Linked Stories, Connected Lives: The Lucky Ones as Short Story Cycle

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Searching the Literary Spectrum for Place and Space

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These places we walk : stories of mental illness in American society

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The Things They Carried as Composite Novel

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Sequences, Anti-Sequences, Cycles, and Composite Novels: The Short Story in Genre Criticism

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The one and the many: English-Canadian short story cycles

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Performative Perspectives on Short Story Collections

A theoretical discussion of the short story collection with a focus on performativity and performance
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Cycles, Recueils, Macrotexts. The Short Story Collection in a Comparative Perspective

An introduction to theoretical perspectives on the short story cycle in the English, French and Italian traditions.
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To Relate, to Read, to Separate A Poetics of the Collection and A Poetics of Diffraction

How the concept of a poetics of the collection allows for a more expansive and flexible analysis of short story collections.
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Unresolved Tensions: William Faulkner’s The Unvanquished as a Short-Story Cycle

The case for Faulkner's The Unvanquished as a short story cycle, and how the incoherence of the form rejects the nostalgic view of the South.
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