Introduction: the liminal aesthetic in the modernist short story -- The journey not the arrival: pilgrimage as a modernist liminal metaphor -- Beyond the rite of passage: "impossible" mourning as an aesthetic of disunity -- The death of the other: dying, mortality, and the textual body -- The modernist uncanny tradition: mysticism, metaphysics and the psychological -- The "inner life" as liminal discourse -- Out of the ordinary: the revelatory moment as a liminal space.
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