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Author:   Prof Delia Ungureanu (Harvard University, USA) ,  Dr. Amândio Reis (University of Lisbon, Portugal) ,  Professor Thomas Oliver Beebee (Penn State University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9798765126738

Pages:   288
Publication Date:   05 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Introduction: To See a World in a Grain of Sand: The Deep History and Modern Lives of an Impure Genre Delia 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 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 Balazs, 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 Domestications Beatrice 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 Lojo-Rodríguez, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain 16. Political Education: The Hispanic American Short Story in the United States Classroom Alan Burnett Valverde, Stanford University, USA Notes on Contributors Index

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In this most timely volume a stellar cast of scholars sheds light on all aspects of the short story as an eminently world literary genre. * Theo D'Haen, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, KU Leuven, Belgium * Often regarded as a kind of stepchild of world literature, the short story here is given its rightful due as one of history's – and the world's – most elemental and elastic imaginative forms. Celebrating the undiminished and undaunted ingenuity of short stories from Arabic tales to Kafka's riddling fables, from ancient creation texts and scriptures to surreal avant-garde films, this volume leaves one with an almost giddy sense of the global reach and historical sweep of the short story's space-and-time-defying modernity. * Maria DiBattista, Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English, Princeton University, USA *

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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.

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