(Archived) Call for Papers: Short Fiction as Humble Fiction
Conference Organizers A conference organised by EMMA (Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone) with ENSFR (European Network for Short Fiction Research) Organising Committee Lynn Blin, Isabelle...
View Article(Archived) Call for Papers: Borders, Intersections and identity in the...
Organisers Borders, Intersections and Identity in the Contemporary Short Story in English is a conference organised by the Research Project Intersections: Gender and Identity in the Short Fiction of...
View ArticleCall for Articles: Special Issue of the JSSE on the short fiction of Edward...
Presentation Edward P. Jones, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Known World in 2004, is also known for "his commitment to the short story, the literary genre in which he is clearly very...
View Article(Archived) Call for Articles: Special Issue of the JSSE on the short fiction...
Presentation Although mostly renowned for her lengthy realist novels, A. S. Byatt has had a sustained practice of short fiction writing which materialized into five collections of short stories and...
View Article(Archived) Call for Papers: Daphne du Maurier: A Critical Reassessment, An...
Key Words Daphne du Maurier – Short fiction – Novels – Film adaptations – Didactics – Biography – Psychoanalysis – Local history Mots clés Daphne du Maurier – Nouvelles – Romans – Adaptations...
View ArticleDad Must Do What Dad Must Do: White Masculinity and the American Dream in...
When approaching the work of George Saunders, scholars have tended to focus on the author’s calls for empathy, situating him within the New Sincerity movement and interrogating the emotional affect...
View ArticleThere Are Darker Kingdoms: Mapping Modernity in Kevin Barry’s Short Stories
In assessing the state of Irish writing in 2010, the writer Paul Murray offered the following reflection on the ways in which Irish novelists were responding to the contemporary moment: It is...
View ArticleTexting a Spinoff: Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s Hybrid “Little Women”
For Birgit Spengler, so many literary spinoffs of classic American works have been published in recent decades that they constitute a genre (15). The past half a dozen years alone have witnessed at...
View ArticleAdolescent Sexuality: Between Discourses of Risk and Resistance
Cet article analyse la représentation de la sexualité des adolescents dans le recueil de nouvelles Sex and Love (ed. Michael Cart, 2003). Partant de la définition de Michel Foucault de la sexualité en...
View Article“La Famille”: An Unpublished Short Story in French by Edith Wharton
Despite being fluent in French from an early age and choosing to live the last three decades of her life in France, biographers generally agree that when it came to writing fiction in French, Edith...
View ArticleLa Famille
I. « Enfin vous voilà revenue de l’autre monde ! Quelle joie de vous revoir, ma mignonne ! » Mme Le Chercheux, du fond de son fauteuil, contemplait avec une satisfaction presque béate la jolie...
View ArticleLa Famille
I. “At last you’ve returned from the other world! What a joy to see you again, my sweet!” Mme Le Chercheux, from the depths of her armchair, contemplated with near blissful satisfaction, the pretty...
View ArticleThe Golden Tower: A Fairy Tale
Adam sat beneath the wooden water tank on the roof of his building on West 57th Street, scanning the new tower block across the street with his binoculars. The walls were of tinted glass, with...
View ArticleBook Review: An Organon of Life Knowledge: Genres and Functions of the Short...
Anyone interested or engaged in short story theory and criticism cannot but welcome the publication of Michael Basseler’s An Organon of Life Knowledge: Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North...
View ArticleBook Review: Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture, by Chris Mourant...
Katherine Mansfield scholarship has grown exponentially in the twenty-first century. The conference held in London in 2008, marking the centenary of her arrival in Europe, was swiftly followed by the...
View ArticleMen and Women in Ron Rash’s Civil War Stories in Something Rich and Strange
In an interview with Frédérique Spill, Ron Rash discusses his choice for the title of his collected short stories, which comes from Act One, scene two of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. To Rash, the phrase...
View ArticleReading, Seeing, Remembering: Aesthetic Experience in Ron Rash’s Stories from...
Since the early 2000s, Ron Rash has made us familiar with a fictional work of high dramatic intensity, combining local color and a gothic mood, and allying the tall-tale to the detective narrative....
View ArticleGood Luck, Bad Luck in Ron Rash’s “Cherokee”
Good and bad luck play an extremely important role in human lives, and yet the contemporary technocratic societies make every effort to marginalize it. The only exception that is widely considered to...
View ArticleReconciling Literacy and Loss in Ron Rash’s Nothing Gold Can Stay
Throughout each of Ron Rash’s short story collections, many characters must confront conflict—both real and imagined—between formal education and community. This reckoning, however, is especially...
View Article“A place where all manner of strange occurrences were possible”: The...
“I like the idea of journey—of walking back and forth through time”Ron Rash (Personal Interview) Having twice traveled the sea,battle-bloodied, swords bone-dulled,Branwen buried inside hersquare-sided...
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