The British and Irish short story handbook / / David Malcolm

• Autore: Malcolm David <1952->
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xiv, 349 p
• Disciplina: 823.009/9417
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - Irish authors - History and criticism; Short stories, English - History and criticism; Short story
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Short story handbook
• Titolo autorizzato: The British and Irish short story handbook
• ISBN: 1-4443-5520-1; 9786613410887; 1-4443-5521-X; 1-4443-5523-6; 1-283-41088-5; 1-78268-812-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807897103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II