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Overview"While scholars have been studying the short story cycle for some time now, this book discusses a form that has never before been identified and named, let alone analyzed: the mini-cycle. A mini-cycle is a short story cycle made up, in most cases, of only two or three stories. This study looks at mini-cycles spanning the period from Anton Chekhov’s ""little trilogy"" (1898) to the ""Alphinland"" stories in Margaret Atwood’s Stone Mattress (2014), including texts by such authors as Stephen Leacock, Alice Munro, Robert Olen Butler, and Clark Blaise. Consideration is also given to marginal examples, like Sherwood Anderson’s ""Godliness—A Tale in Four Parts"" (1919), which can be seen as one story or four distinct texts unified under one title, and to what is called the ""exploded"" mini-cycle: one whose component stories are published with intervening stories between them rather than consecutively. For each mini-cycle, the analysis is based on close reading of both the linking elements—character, imagery, symbolism, and so forth—and the rhetorical and aesthetic effects of the mini-cycle’s being made up of distinct stories rather than constructed as one long narrative." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Allan WeissPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.566kg ISBN: 9780367691691ISBN 10: 0367691698 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 07 May 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The Sociology of the Short Story Chapter 2: Anton Chekhov’s ""Little Trilogy"" Chapter 3: The Mini-Cycle within a Cycle: Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches Chapter 4: The Prototypical Mini-Cycle I: Alice Munro’s ""Juliet Triptych"" Chapter 5: The Prototypical Mini-Cycle II: Margaret Atwood’s ""Alphinland"" Stories Chapter 6: The Collection of Mini-Cycles Chapter 7: The Two-Story Mini-Cycle Chapter 8: The Prototypical Mini-Cycle Plus: Clark Blaise’s ""Porter/Carrier Stories"" Chapter 9: The Exploded Mini-Cycle Chapter 10: Marginal Cases Conclusion"ReviewsAuthor InformationAllan Weiss received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Toronto (1985), with a specialization in Canadian literature. He has taught at York University since 1990, and is currently Associate Professor of English and Humanities. He has edited a number of collections of essays on Canadian fantastic literature, most recently The Canadian Fantastic in Focus (2014), a volume of proceedings of the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, of which he has been Chair since 1996. He has also published articles and given conference papers on Canadian fantastic literature both in Canada and internationally. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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