Short Story Cycles

Short Story Cycles
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NOTE: The original abstract of this dissertation is not readable. Therefore I have elected to post an excerpt from its introduction instead: The Short Story Cycle in Ireland (1890s – present):   Introduction  The short story...

Lesley Harrison’s practice-led PhD is titled ‘Behind the Boomgate: A short story cycle and accompanying exegesis’. The short story cycle shares the experiences of baby boomers living permanently in a caravan park. The accompanying exegesis...

First paragraph: The editors of this special section asked a panel of experts to weigh in on questions related to the short story, the short story cycle, genre and form, emotion, affect, and effects on...

First paragraph: I n 1990 Eli Yassif published a ground-breaking article, “The Cycle of Tales in Rabbinic Literature,” in  Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature. Yassif argued that the phenomenon of the story-cycle, namely, a cluster...

“Glimpses of the World: The Vignette in 21st-Century American Fiction” examines the relationship between contemporary digital and print fictions that center their critique in the short form of the vignette. Delineating a media archeology of...

First paragraph: The first decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed the publication of several works of fiction that, though marketed as novels, wear that label rather uneasily. These works are highly fragmented texts, made...