Short Story as World Literature

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The Deep History and Modern Lives of an Impure Genre

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Delia Ungureanu, Amândio Reis, USA) Ungureanu, Prof Delia (Harvard University, Portugal) Reis, Dr. Amandio (University of Lisbon, Sofia Ahlberg, Thomas Oliver Beebee

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Global in scope, this volume uncovers the deep history of the short story as an "impure" genre by challenging the commonplace understanding in contemporary literary studies that the short story is primarily a product of Western modernity.Genres do not have rigid, timeless, once-and-for-all definitions, and the short story is no exception. Short Story as World Literature invites the reader to reflect on the historical becoming of this impure genre, analyzing various forms of the short story throughout its deep history. It also challenges established ideas about the genre that limit its history to the prose form practiced by Edgar Allan Poe and canonized in Western Europe following Charles Baudelaire’s influential translation.The story of the short story presented here goes into a much deeper history throughout time and space: its earliest forms include dreams and visions in ancient religious texts, parables, poems, maxims, but also more recently poem-objects and films. The authors examine how the short story evolves, sometimes almost beyond recognition, across different forms of art, genres, and media, as well as through translation and circulation – with effects on institutions, educational politics, and the construction of a moral system of values.An international team of established and emerging scholars in the fields of comparative and world literature – including David Damrosch, Paulo Horta, Dominique Jullien, and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, as well as Maria Dabija, Sophus Helle, and Michael Makarovsky – untangle this complex and complicated (hi)story.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-05
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiteratures as World Literature
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798765126738

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Delia Ungureanu is Executive Director of the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University, USA, and Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania. Amândio Reis is Assistant Professor of Portuguese Studies in the Department of Romance Literatures at the University of Lisbon, School of Arts and Humanities, Portugal, and editor-in-chief of Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies.

List of Figures Introduction: To See a World in a Grain of Sand: The Deep History and Modern Lives of an Impure GenreDelia Ungureanu, Harvard University, USA Part 1. The Temporal Axis 1. The Invention of the Frame Tale David Damrosch, Harvard University, USA 2. The Shortness of Epics: Gilgamesh Between Worm and World Sophus Helle, Princeton University, USA and Aya Labanieh, Columbia University, USA 3. The Islamicate Short Story and Frame Tale as World Literature: Beyond the Arabian Nights Michiel Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands 4. Mediterranean Nights: Traveling Tales of Shahrazad and Hanna Diyab Paulo Lemos Horta, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE 5. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen’s Stories: All Over the World (Literature) and Beyond Maria Dabija, Harvard University, USA 6. The Literary Travels of Machado de Assis: Prefaces, Parodies, and Miscellaneous Papers Amândio Reis, University of Lisbon, Portugal 7. Perchance to Dream: The Story of the Prodigal Father in Shakespeare, Kafka, and Nachman of Breslov Michael Makarovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 8. Surrealist Transformations: The Short Story beyond Genre Limits Imre József Balázs, Babel-Bolyai University, Romania 9. A Passion for a Form: The Short Story in Pasolini’s Notes, from La Trilogia della vita to Petrolio Annalisa Mirizio, University of Barcelona, Spain Part 2. The Spatial Axis 10. Translation’s Schism(s): The Trials and Tribulations of Matteo Bandello’s Novelle (1554) in Their French and English DomesticationBeatrice Fuga, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France 11. The Worlding of Japanese Literature in Lafcadio Hearn’s Supernatural Tales Stefano Evangelista, Oxford University, UK 12. Mapping the Epistemological Tangle in the Modern Short Story Dominique Jullien, University of California Santa Barbara, USA 13. East, West, East: Ádám Bodor’s De-localized Hungarian and Salman Rushdie's Global English Gábor Tamás Molnár, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary 14. The Virtues and Lack of Short Stories in World Literature Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University, Denmark 15. Brexit Tales: Refugee Narratives and Short Story Anthologies as World Literature Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain Contributors Index