04171cam a2200661Mu 4500 ocn809771266 OCoLC 20200709055556.0 m d cr |n|---||||| 120823s2012 ne ob 001 0 eng d MHW eng pn MHW OCLCO N$T OCLCQ YDXCP OCLCQ OCLCF E7B NLE DEBBG AZU OCLCQ OCL OCLCQ AGLDB MERUC OCLCQ YDX 811390814 1003196067 1003253498 9789401208321 (electronic bk.) 9401208328 (electronic bk.) 9789042035577 9042035579 476503 (N$T) (OCoLC)809771266 (OCoLC)811390814 (OCoLC)1003196067 (OCoLC)1003253498 PN98.P67 BX8729 .S468 2012 LCO 010000 bisacsh PR lcco 824.92 23 MAIN Sacido, Jorge. Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English. Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2012. 1 online resource (275 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Postmodern Studies ; v. 48 Print version record. 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. Master record variable field(s) change: 072 Postmodernism. Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism. LITERARY COLLECTIONS Essays. bisacsh Literature, Modern. fast (OCoLC)fst01000172 Postmodernism. fast (OCoLC)fst01073164 Englisch. gnd (DE-601)106338749 Kurzgeschichte. gnd (DE-601)10625569X Moderne. gnd (DE-601)104658711 Postmoderne. gnd (DE-601)104288515 1900-1999 fast Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635 Print version: 9789042035577 Postmodern studies ; v. 48. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=476503 ebrary EBRY ebr10589720 EBSCOhost EBSC 476503 YBP Library Services YANK 9564907 92 N$T 51533 51533