07284nam 2200625Ia 450 991080789710332120200520144314.01-4443-5520-197866134108871-4443-5521-X1-4443-5523-61-283-41088-51-78268-812-9(CKB)24989763500041(MiAaPQ)EBC832778(OCoLC)778434025(MiAaPQ)EBC4041805(MiAaPQ)EBC7104631(Au-PeEL)EBL832778(CaPaEBR)ebr10523977(OCoLC)771876071(JP-MeL)3000111931(EXLCZ)992498976350004120110817d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe British and Irish short story handbook /David Malcolm1st ed.Hoboken, NJ John Wiley & Sons Inc.2012xiv, 349 p880-03Wiley Blackwell Literature HandbooksIncludes bibliographical references and index.THE BRITISH AND IRISH: SHORT STORY HANDBOOK -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part 1: A Brief History of the British and Irish Short Story -- Part 2: Issues in Short Story Criticism -- Definitions -- Genre? -- Collections -- Marginality -- Canonicity -- Institutions -- Part 3: Genres -- The Ghost Short Story, the Supernatural Short Story, and the Gothic Short Story -- The Science Fiction Short Story and the Fantasy Short Story -- The Fable -- The Short Story of Exotic Adventure -- The Detective and Crime Short Story -- The Historical Short Story -- The Realist Social-Psychological Short Story -- The Metafictional/Experimental Short Story -- Part 4: Key Authors -- Richard Aldington (1892-1962) -- J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) -- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) -- Frances Bellerby (1899-1975) -- John Berger (born 1926) -- Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) -- Angela Carter (1940-1992) -- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) -- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) -- A. E. Coppard (1878-1957) -- Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870-1896) -- Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) -- Hugh Fleetwood (born 1944) -- Graham Greene (1904-1991) -- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- Henry James (1843-1916) -- Gabriel Josipovici (born 1940) -- James Joyce (1882-1941) -- James Kelman (born 1946) -- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) -- Hanif Kureishi (born 1954) -- James Lasdun (born 1958) -- Mary Lavin (1912-1996) -- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) -- Doris Lessing (born 1919) -- George Mackay Brown (1921-1996) -- Julian Maclaren-Ross (1912-1964) -- Bernard MacLaverty (born 1942) -- Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) -- E. A. Markham (1939-2008) -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) -- Ian McEwan (born 1948) -- John McGahern (1934-2006) -- Michael Moorcock (born 1939) -- H. H. Munro ("Saki") (1870-1916) -- Frank O'Connor (1903-1966) -- Seán O'Faoláin (1900-1991) -- Mollie Panter-Downes (1906-1997) -- T. F. Powys (1875-1953).V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997) -- Jean Rhys (1890-1979) -- Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) -- Muriel Spark (1918-2006) -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) -- Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) -- William Trevor (born 1928) -- H. G. Wells (1866-1946) -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) -- Part 5: Key Works -- Robert Louis Stevenson, "Markheim" (1885) -- Oscar Wilde, "The Canterville Ghost: A Hylo-Idealistic Romance" (1887) -- Oscar Wilde, "The Selfish Giant" (1888) -- Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb" (1892) -- Hubert Crackanthorpe, "Modern Melodrama" (1895) -- Henry James, "The Altar of the Dead" (1895) -- Joseph Conrad, "Amy Foster" (1901) -- George Moore, "Home Sickness" (1903) -- H. G. Wells, "The Valley of Spiders" (1903) -- M. R. James, "Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book" (1904) -- H. H. Munro ("Saki"), "Sredni Vashtar" (1911) -- James Joyce, "An Encounter" (1914) -- D. H. Lawrence, "Tickets, Please" (1919) -- Virginia Woolf, "Kew Gardens" (1919) -- Katherine Mansfield, "The Stranger" (1921) -- A. E. Coppard, "The Higgler" (1925) -- Rudyard Kipling, "The Gardener" (1926) -- Jean Rhys, "Mannequin" (1927) -- W. Somerset Maugham, "Footprints in the Jungle" (1927) -- T. F. Powys, "John Pardy and the Waves" (1929) -- Seán O'Faoláin, "Midsummer Night Madness" (1932) -- V. S. Pritchett, "Handsome Is As Handsome Does" (1938) -- Mollie Panter-Downes, "Goodbye, My Love" (1941) -- Alun Lewis, "The Last Inspection" (1942) -- Mary Lavin, "At Sallygap" (1943) -- Elizabeth Bowen, "Mysterious Koˆ r" (1944) -- Julian Maclaren-Ross, "The Tape" (1944) -- Denton Welch, "Narcissus Bay" (1948) -- Frank O'Connor, "Eternal Triangle" (1954) -- J. G. Ballard, "The Terminal Beach" (1964) -- Samuel Beckett, "Lessness" (1970) -- Gabriel Josipovici, "Mobius the Stripper: A Topological Exercise" (1974).Michael Moorcock, "Waiting for the End of Time. . ." (1976) -- Sylvia Townsend Warner, "The King of Orkney's Leonardo" (1976) -- William Trevor, "Another Christmas" (1978) -- Angela Carter, "The Erl-King" (1979) -- Clive Sinclair, "The Evolution of the Jews" (1979) -- John McGahern, "The Conversion of William Kirkwood" (1985) -- James Kelman, "Forgetting to Mention Allende" (1987) -- Mary Dorcey, "A Noise from the Woodshed" (1989) -- James Lasdun, "Ate/Menos or The Miracle" (1992) -- Bernard MacLaverty, "A Silent Retreat" (1994) -- Hanif Kureishi, "We're Not Jews" (1995) -- Patricia Duncker, "Stalker" (2003) -- China Miéville, "Foundation" (2003) -- Key Collections -- References and Further Reading -- Index.The British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers through the development of the short story and the unique critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction. It includes a wide-ranging analysis of non-canonical and non-realist writers as well as the major authors and their works, providing a comprehensive and much-needed appraisal of this area. Guides readers through the development of the short story and critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction Offers a detailed discussion of the range of genres in the British and Irish short story Includes extensive analysis of non-canonical writers, such as Hubert Crackanthorpe, Ella D'Arcy, T.F. Powys, A.E. Coppard, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Mollie Panter-Downes, Denton Welch, and Sylvia Townsend Warner Provide a wide-ranging discussion of non-realist and experimental short stories Includes a large section on the British short story in the Second World War.Short story handbookEnglish fictionIrish authorsHistory and criticismHandbooks, manuals, etcShort stories, EnglishHistory and criticismHandbooks, manuals, etcShort storyHandbooks, manuals, etcEnglish fictionIrish authorsHistory and criticismShort stories, EnglishHistory and criticismShort story823.009/9417Malcolm David1952-623044MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807897103321The British and Irish short story handbook4012832UNINA