Short Story Cycles

Day: March 18, 2022

While the story cycle form has been popular for centuries, as seen in works like The Decameron and One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, it is especially important to modern Anglo-American literature. Twentieth century short...

When read straight through as a novel, Miss Cayley’s Adventures (1898-99) appears to reside singularly within the detective genre; this reading limits our understanding of the ways in which Grant Allen challenges the anxieties regarding...

Orna Levin discusses in her “Strange Genre-related Loops in a Novel-Short Story: The Tension between the Genres and their Cultural Context” the strange genre-related loops in Maya Arad’s novel (2009), through the tension between the...