Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English.

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How can the short story help to redefine modernism, postmodernism and their interrelationship? What is the status of the short story in modern literary history? These are the central questions that the essays collected in this volume try to answer from different perspectives through readings of short fiction in English and accounts of the genre's theorisations. The essays by a group of international scholars tackle theoretical issues that are central in approaches to both "movements" such as periodisation, autonomy, high vs. popular literature, totality vs. fragmentation, surface vs. depth, ot.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modernism, postmodernism, and the short story in English / Jorge Sacido -- I. Refocusing "modernism" through the short story. The short story and the difficulty of modernism / Adrian Hunter ; Allegory and fragmentation in Wyndham Lewis's The wild body and Djuna Barnes's A book / José María Díaz -- II. Subject vanishes: modernist contradiction, postmodernist effacement and the short story genre. Man in a sidecar: madness, totality and narrative drive the short story / Tim Armstrong ; Stories, spectres, screens / Fred Botting ; The writing machine: J.G. Ballard in modern and postmodern short story theory / Paul March-Russell -- III. The subject reappears: postcolonial conflict and the other's stories. Postmodernist tales from the couch / Esther Sánchez-Pardo ; Mind the gap: modernism in Salman Rushdie's postmodern short stories / J. Manuel Barbeito and María Lozano ; One anOther: Englishness in contemporary Irish short fiction / Manuela Palacios -- IV. Short stories from the contemporary underground. A move against the dinosaurs: the new puritans and the short story / José Francisco Fernández.

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