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Postmodern Short Story

Forms and Issues

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

AvFarhat Iftekharrudin,Joseph Boyden,Mary Rohrberger,Jaie Claudet

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Short stories are usually defined in terms of characteristics of modernism, in which the story begins in the middle, develops according to a truncated plot, and ends with an epiphany. This approach tends to ignore postmodernism, a movement often characterized by a negation of objective reality where plots are seemingly abandoned, surfaces are extraordinary, and symbols turn inward on themselves. This book examines postmodern forms and characteristic themes by analyzing a group of short stories that make use of postmodern narrative strategies, including nonfictional fiction, gender profiling, and death as an image.The volume begins with a discussion of the blurred lines between fiction and nonfiction in the short story and imaginative personal essay. It then looks at the role of women in works by such authors as Sandra Cisneros, Leslie Marmon Silko, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lorrie Moore. This is followed by a section of chapters on postmodern masculinity and short fiction. The next section focuses on death as an image and theme in works by Richard Ford, Richard Brautigan, and James Joyce. The final set of chapters considers postmodern short fiction from South Africa and Canada.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-12-30
Mått155 x 242 x 26 mm
Vikt595 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieContributions to the Study of World Literature
Antal sidor296
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780313323751

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FARHAT IFTEKHARRUDIN is Associate Professor of English and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Texas at Brownsville. He is Editor of the literary journal Short Story.JOSEPH BOYDEN published a collection of short fiction, Born with a Tooth (2001).MARY ROHRBERGER is Adjunct Professor of English at the University of New Orleans. She is Executive Editor of Short Story.JAIE CLAUDET is currently working on a novel.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Farhat IftekharuddinFictional Nonfiction And Nonfictional FictionPlaying It Straight by Making It Up: Imaginative Leaps in the Personal Essay by Marilyn AbildskovFacts and Fancy: The "Nonfiction Short Story" by Michele MoranoHistoriografiction: The Fictionalization of History in the Short Story by Michael OrlofskyWomen's Identity in the Postmodern WorldClosure in Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" by Rose Marie CuttingThe Silence of the Bears: Leslie Marmon Silko's Writerly Act of Spiritual Storytelling by Brewster E. FitzThe Feminine Consciousness as Nightmare in the Short-Short Stories of Joyce Carol Oates by Wayne StengelPostmodernism in Women's Short Story Cycles: Lorrie Moore's Anagrams by Karen WeekesContemporary Men and Their StoriesCrippled by the Truth: Oracular Pronouncements, Titillating Titles, and the Postmodern Ethic by Richard LeeMale Paradigms in Thom Jones and Tom Paine by Paul R. LillyEloquence and Plot in Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son: The Merging of Premodern and Modernist Narrative by J. Scott FarrinArdor with a Silent H: Submitting to the Ache of Love in Edmund White's "Skinned Alive" by Raymond FrontainThe Genre Which Is Not One: Hemingway's In Our Time, Difference, and the Short Story Cycle by Peter DonahueDeath As Image And Theme In Short FictionShort Stories to Film: Richard Ford's "Great Falls" and "Children" as Bright Angel by Larry D. GriffinMelancholia and the Death Motif in Richard Brautigan's Short Fiction by Brenda M. PaloPerhaps She Had Not Told Him All the Story: The Disnarrated in James Joyce's Dubliners by Howard LindhomPostmodern Narrative Around The WorldMultiple Narrative Frames in R. R. R. Dhlomo's "Juwawa" by Christine LoflinBeyond Genre: Canadian Surrealist Short Fiction by Allan WeissPostmodernism in the American Short Story: Some General Observations and Some Specific Cases by Harold KaylorSelected BibliographyIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors