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Long regarded as an undervalued and marginalised genre, the short story is undergoing a renaissance. The Short Story celebrates its unique appeal. Practitioners and scholars address the issues facing short story criticism in the 21st century. Author A.L. Kennedy shares the pleasures and frustrations of writing the short story in the literary marketplace. This is followed by an assessment of recent attempts to promote short story readership in the UK. Other contributors look at forms such as the short-short and the short story sequence. The range of authors discussed includes Martin Amis, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie and James Joyce. The short story is the most international of genres; this is reflected in chapters on Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino and on Japanese short fiction. Postcolonial and translation theory are combined with the close reading of specific texts. Neglected authors, such as the Welsh writer Dorothy Edwards and the colonial figure Frank Swettenham, are re-evaluated and we also consider genre writing, with chapters on crime fiction and Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles. Integrating theory and practice, The Short Story will appeal both to writers and to students of literary criticism.

Short story. --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- NOUVELLES (GENRE LITTERAIRE) --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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Legacies. --- Carrington, Leonora, --- Bequests --- Legacies --- Inheritance and succession --- Probate law and practice --- Wills --- Law and legislation

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New scholarly essays on the short story in English as a phenomenon of world literature. This collection explores the history and development of the anglophone short story since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Ranging across texts from different parts of the English-speaking world, it studies the form in its many guises and venues of publication. Why have writers of so many nationalities and dispositions found the short story amenable to experimentation and discovery? What is the history and origin of the modern short story, and what has been the role of the publishing business, of academic criticism, of the Creative Writing 'industry', and of the digital revolution in shaping and disseminating it over the past two centuries? This collection of innovative essays by new and established scholars explores these and other questions, addressing stories from around the world, and considering their relationship to place, identity, history and genre.

Short stories, English --- History and criticism --- E-books --- History and criticism.

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Fantastic and Gothic readings of Mansfield’s short stories present us with a covert, darker world, alongside seemingly familiar actions and eventsThis volume investigates an unexpectedly rich vein of literary gothic motifs and tropes found within Mansfield’s modernist, experimental prose. The essays investigate her development of the fairytale in several stories discloses how the ‘Cinderella’ story underpins ‘Her First Ball’, how ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ lurks beneath ‘The Little Governess’, and how the figure of the changeling inhabits ‘A Suburban Fairy Tale’. Mansfield’s explorations of the conscious and unconscious mind are elucidated through a discussion of Freud’s theory of the uncanny and the unsettling effects of language in Mansfield’s In A German Pension stories. Finally, the term ‘charm’ is revealed as spanning the two extremes of the fantastic and the ordinary which combine in Mansfield’s evocations of the enchantment of domestic interiors.

Mansfield, Katherine, --- Criticism and interpretation.