Short Story Cycles

Author: Christopher Marcus

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 film. In the first...

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 these universes come into...

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 certain of the characteristics...