A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4537-4
Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks

Buch, Englisch, 592 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 256 mm, Gewicht: 1204 g

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story chronicles the development of this important literary form in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Part I covers the years up to 1945 and examines the short fiction that emerged around such themes as imperial adventures, responses to war, and detective and crime stories. Authors covered in this period include Robert Louis Stevenson, James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and Elizabeth Bowen. Part II reflects the range of themes, and richer diversity of authorship, that developed during the postwar years, including feminist writings, gay and lesbian fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and short stories by Asian and Afro-Caribbean writers. Doris Lessing, Angela Carter, Hanif Kureishi, J.G. Ballard, and Ben Okri, are just some of the authors discussed in these chapters.

Incorporating a wide range of approaches, A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story captures the astonishing range of modern short fiction produced in Britain and Ireland from the end of the nineteenth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malcolm, David

Malcolm, Cheryl Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.

Preface.

Part I: 1880-1945.

Introduction.

1. The British and Irish Short Story to 1945: Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm

Topics and Genres.

2. The Story of Colonial Adventure: Mariadele Boccardi

3. Responses to War: 1914-1918 and 1939-1945: Richard Greaves

4. Irish Short Fiction: 1880-1945: Patrick Lonergan

5. The Detective and Crime Story: 1880-1945: Jopi Nyman

6. The British and Irish Ghost Story and Tale of the Supernatural: 1880-1945: Becky DiBiasio

7. Finding a Voice: Women Writing the Short Story (to 1945): Sabine Coelsch-Foisner

8. Rudyard Kipling's Art of the Short Story: David Malcolm

Reading Individual Authors and Texts.

9. Robert Louis Stevenson: "The Bottle Imp," "The Beach of Falesá," and "Markheim": Michael Meyer

10. Thomas Hardy: Wessex Tales: David Grylls(Kellogg College, Oxford).

11. Joseph Conrad: "The Secret Sharer" and "An Outpost of Progress": Christopher Thomas Cairney

12. The Short Stories of Hector Hugh Munro ("Saki"): Sandie Byrne

13. Paralysis Re-considered: James Joyce's Dubliners: Richard Greaves

14. H.G. Wells's Short Stories: "The Country of the Blind" and "The Door in the Wall": Sabine Coelsch-Foisner

15. D.H. Lawrence's Short Stories: "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" and "The Rocking Horse Winner": Kathryn Miles

16. Virginia Woolf: "Kew Gardens" and "The Legacy": Stef Craps

17. Katherine Mansfield: "The Garden Party" and "Marriage à la Mode": Jennifer E. Dunn

18. Frank O'Connor: "Guests of the Nation" and "My Oedipus Complex": Greg Winston

19. The Short Stories of Liam O'Flaherty: Shawn O'Hare

20. W. Somerset Maugham's Ashenden Stories: David Malcolm

21. Elizabeth Bowen: "The Demon Lover" and "Mysterious Kôr": Sarah Dillon

Part II: 1945-the Present.

Introduction.

22. The British and Irish Short Story: 1945-Present: Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm

Topics and Genres.

23. New Identities: The Irish Short Story since 1945: Greg Winston

24. Redefining Englishness: British Short Fiction from 1945 to the Present: James M. Lang

25. Scottish Short Stories (post 1945): Gavin Miller

26. Hybrid Voices and Visions: The Short Stories of E.A. Markham, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Patricia Duncker, and Jackie Kay: Michael Parker

27. The Anglo-Jewish Short Story since the Holocaust: Cheryl Alexander Malcolm

28. Feminist Voices: Women's Short Fiction after 1945: Michael Meyer

29. British Gay and Lesbian Short Stories: Brett Josef Grubisic

30. Science Fiction and Fantasy after 1945: Beyond Pulp Fiction: Mitchell R. Lewis

31. Experimental Short Fiction in Britain since 1945: Günther Jarfe

Reading Individual Authors and Texts.

32. The Short Stories of Julian Maclaren-Ross: David Malcolm

33. Alan Sillitoe: "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner": Michael Parker

34. The Short Stories of Elizabeth Taylor: Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr

35. The Short Fiction of V.S. Pritchett: Andrzej Gsiorek

36. Edna O'Brien: "A Rose in the Heart of New York": Sinéad Mooney

37. Doris Lessing: African Stories: Don Adams

38. The Desire for Clarity: Seán O'Faoláin's "Lovers of the Lake": Paul Delaney

39. The Short Stories of Muriel Spark: Robert Ellis Hosmer, Jr

40. Jean Rhys: "Let Them Call It Jazz": Cheryl Alexander Malcolm

41. George Mackay Brown: "Witch," "Master Halcrow, Priest," "A Time to Keep," and "The Tarn and the Rosary": Gavin Miller

42. William Trevor: Uncertain Grounds for Assured Art: John Kenny

43. John McGahern: Nightlines: Stanley van der Ziel

44. The Clinking of an Identity Disk: Bernard MacLaverty's "Walking the Dog": Jerzy Jarniewicz

45. Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber: A World Transformed by Imagination and Desire - Adventures in Anarcho-Surrealism: Madelena Gonzalez

46. J.G. Ballard: Psychopathology, Apocalypse, and the Media Landscape: Mitchell R. Lewis

47. The Short Stories of Benjamin Okri: Wolfgang Görtschacher

48. James Kelman: Greyhound for Breakfast: Peter Clandfield

49. Hanif Kureishi: Love in a Blue Time: Patrick Lonergan

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cheryl Alexander Malcolm is Associate Professor in the Department of American Literature and Culture, English Institute, University of Gdansk, Poland

David Malcolm is Professor and Chair, Department of Literary Studies, English Institute, University of Gdansk, Poland