Excerpts Konarmija (Red Cavalry) is not simply a collection of stories, nor is it merely a series of sketches, but it is a planned short story cycle, by definition what Forrest Ingram calls “. .....
Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women and The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose are two literary works that hardly fit into one single literary category. Critics of all quarters are at one...
From the introduction: The opening essay by Elke D’hoker raises our awareness of an Irish genre tradition that has received surprisingly little attention: the short story cycle. While the short story – characterised by Declan...