Essays. Collection of texts published previously. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
A move against the dinosaurs: the new puritans and the short story / José Francisco Fernández. IV. 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.
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