Jorge Sacido took his PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and is at present Senior Lecturer in English at this university. He has published on Conrad, Woolf, Žižek and British popular culture, and has co-edited National Identities and European Literatures (2008). He supervised a research project on modernism and postmodernism in the English short story funded by the Galician Regional Government (2008-2011).

• AcknowledgementsJorge Sacido: IntroductionJorge Sacido: Modernism, Postmodernism and the Short StoryRefocusing “Modernism” through the Short StoryAdrian Hunter: The Short Story and the Difficulty of ModernismJosé María Díaz: Allegory and Fragmentation in Wyndham Lewis’s The Wild Body and Djuna Barnes’s A BookThe Subject Vanishes: Modernist Contraction, Postmodernist Effacement and the Short Story GenreTim Armstrong: Man in a Sidecar: Madness, Totality and Narrative Drive in the Short StoryFred Botting: Stories, Spectres, ScreensPaul March-Russell: The Writing Machine: J. G. Ballard in Modern and Postmodern Short Story TheoryThe Subject Reappears: Postcolonial Conflict and the Other’s StoriesEsther Sánchez-Pardo: Postmodernist Tales from the CouchJ. Manuel Barbeito and María Lozano: Mind the Gap: Modernism in Salman Rushdie’s Postmodern Short StoriesManuela Palacios: One anOther: Englishness in Contemporary Irish Short FictionShort Notes from the Contemporary UndergroundJosé Francisco Fernández: A Move against the Dinosaurs: The New Puritans and the Short StoryContributorsIndex

"The present volume is an inspiring collection of essays which succeeds in engaging the reader in a thought-provoking discussion on issues which are presently at the core of literary and artistic debates, such as the definition and delimitations of the short story, as well as the ideas and problematics of modernist and postmodernist creation. […] Sacido’s collection of essays becomes, therefore, a fundamental work of reference central to any discussion not only on literary theory and history, but also on the status of cultural forms of represeantation." – Isabel Andrés Cuevas, University of Grenada, in: miscelánea: a journal of English and American studies 50 (2014) pp. 173-7“[…] subversive quality […] What is more, Sacido’s essay collection offers an original and ground-breaking approach to the role of the short story in modernist and postmodernist aesthetics that neither specialists in the short story genre nor those interested in twentieth century literature or criticism should miss.” – Carmen Lara Rallo, Universidad de Málaga, in: ATLANTIS - Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies 36.1 (2014), pp. 179-183“[…] its daring variety, its capacity to challenge hackneyed binary notions about Modernism and Postmodernism, and, above all, its critical perceptiveness turn it into profitable reading for all those who feel inclined to believe that the short story is a genre of and for the future.”– José Antonio Álvarez Amorós, Universidad de Alicante, in: International Journal of English Studies 14.1 (2014), pp. 125-130