Screen LibraryThe British and Irish short story handbook
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| Published: |
Wiley-Blackwell,
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| Publisher Address: | Hoboken, N.J. |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell literature handbook |
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 349 p.: ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781444330458 (cloth) 1444330454 (cloth) 9781444330465 (pbk.) 1444330462 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | I561 |
| CLC: | I561.074-62 |
| Call Number: | I561.074-62/M243 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [338]-343) and index. A brief history of the British and Irish short story -- Issues in short story criticism: Definitions ; Genre? ; Collections ; Marginality ; Canonicity ; Institutions -- 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 -- 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) ; Sean O'Faolain (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) |