Bibliograph

Postmodern approaches to the short story, edited by Farhat Iftekharrudin [and others]

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Postmodern approaches to the short story, edited by Farhat Iftekharrudin [and others]

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-147) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Postmodern approaches to the short story

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

61191847

Responsibility statement

edited by Farhat Iftekharrudin [and others]

Series statement

Contributions to the study of world literature,, no. 118, 0738-9345

Summary

Postmodernism, as a mode of the contemporary short story, has been clearly established and recognized by short story theorists. But postmodern theory, as pervasive as it has become among academics in the last half century, has scarcely been applied to the short story genre in particular. Many contemporary scholars, nonetheless, are currently making use of certain postmodern thematic approaches to help them determine meanings of particular short stories. T

Table Of Contents

The challenge of "June recital": generic considerations in the structure of The golden apples -- The end of the world: closure in the fantasies of Borges, Calvino, and Millhauser -- Genre and the work of reading in Mansfield's "Prelude" and "At the bay" -- Death and the reader: James's "The beast in the jungle" -- Sandra Benítez and the nomadic text -- Postmodern issues in Janette Turner Hospital's nature-dominated short stories "The end-of-the-line end-of-the-world disco" and "Our own little kakadu" -- The virtuous complaint: Iranian short fiction of the 1960s-1970s -- Jean Toomer's Cane -- Homi K. Bhabha and the postcolonial short story -- Wharton's short fiction of war: the politics of "Coming home" -- Living in a world of make-believe: fantasy, female identity, and modern short stories by women in the British tradition -- The fourierist parables of Guy Davenport

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