Category: Article

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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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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The short story cycle: Broadening the perspective

Key examples of short story cycles in English literature and attempts to establish a literary tradition for this genre.
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Story cycles and climate disaster: Finding alternative structures for literary realist narratives in the Anthropocene

How short story cycles about climate use the non-linear form to express the interconnectedness of human and non-human elements.
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Artistic Originality of William Faulkner’s Stories

Exploring the concept of "cyclization" in William Faulkner's literary works.
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“Queer small town people”: Fixations and fictions of fellowship in the modern short story cycle

Tracing the broad trajectory of the South African short story cycle's development.
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The Emergence of the Short Story Cycle in Canada Alice Munro’s Short Story Cycles as a Case Study

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Narrating the Community: The Short Story Cycles of Val Mulkerns and Mary Beckett

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A Review of Concise Literature: The Short Story Cycle

A reflection on the process of writing a short story cycle
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Introduction: On the Stickiness of the Short Story and the Cycle

Discussing why some short story cycles seem to stick together more cohesively, in the context of studies of affect, emotion, and feeling.
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