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Title:

Postmodern approaches to the short story / edited by Farhat Iftekharrudin ... [et al.].

Publisher:

Praeger,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

xi, 156 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Short story.

Other Authors:

Iftekharuddin, Farhat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-147) and index.

Contents:

The challenge of "June recital": generic considerations in the structure of The golden apples -- The end of the world: closure in the fantasies of Borges, Calvino, and Millhauser -- Genre and the work of reading in Mansfield's "Prelude" and "At the bay" -- Death and the reader: James's "The beast in the jungle" -- Sandra Benítez and the nomadic text -- Postmodern issues in Janette Turner Hospital's nature-dominated short stories "The end-of-the-line end-of-the-world disco" and "Our own little kakadu" -- The virtuous complaint: Iranian short fiction of the 1960s-1970s -- Jean Toomer's Cane -- Homi K. Bhabha and the postcolonial short story -- Wharton's short fiction of war: the politics of "Coming home" -- Living in a world of make-believe: fantasy, female identity, and modern short stories by women in the British tradition -- The fourierist parables of Guy Davenport.

Series:

Contributions to the study of world literature, 0738-9345 ; no. 118

ISBN:

9780313323744 (alk. paper)
0313323747 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49959329

LCCN:

2002072546

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)