Short Story Cycles

Publication Year: 2013

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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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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Inclusive Memory: The Power of Collective Remembering in Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place

This essay considers how collective memory works to develop and sustain a group identity in Gloria Naylor’s 1980 novel, The Women of Brewster Place. Using post-structural theorist Bronwyn Davies’s collective biography project as a model...

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Linked Stories, Connected Lives: The Lucky Ones as Short Story Cycle

This essay considers the thematic repercussions of the peculiar narrative and generic structure of The Lucky Ones as a collection of linked short stories. The form of the short story cycle allows Cusk to stage a variety...

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