Anthologisation and Irish Short Fiction

Magnitudes of Telling
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-03396-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Irish Literature

This original new study explores the recent flowering of short fiction in Ireland.  More specifically, it discusses the cultural, material, and ideological usages of the short form in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, engaging with the forces that have helped to shape the production, dissemination, and reception of short stories over the last few decades in Ireland.  The book is generically fluid and reads short fiction in its many guises, from short-shorts to long stories, and from standalone texts included in periodicals and online forums, to stories that were published in volumes, miscellanies, and edited collections.

The book focuses especially upon anthologies and the act of anthologisation.  The creation of an anthology is never a simple value-free act, since those associated with the curation of anthologies are always obliged to make decisions that are variously material, economic, formal, ideological, and aesthetic.  Some of these decisions are founded upon personal preferences, others are grounded in subjective prejudices and biases; however, all have consequences for the ways that a literary culture is created, marketed, taught, and read.  This new book explores this subject, and looks at the consequences for ways that we think about Irish short fiction in the contemporary moment.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delaney, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Defining and rethinking ‘the Irish short story’

2 ‘A gathering of possibilities’: Acts of anthologisation

3 ‘Magnitudes of telling’: Portability and revision

Conclusion

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Delaney is Associate Professor in the School of English and a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.  He is the author of ‘Seán O’Faoláin: Literature, Inheritance and the 1930s’ (2014) and co-editor, with Deirdre Madden, of ‘David Marcus: Editing Ireland’ (2024).  His other books include the edited volumes, ‘Dublin Tales’, with Eve Patten (2023), ‘The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English’, with Adrian Hunter (2019), ‘William Trevor: Revaluations’, with Michael Parker (2013), and ‘Reading Colm Tóibín’ (2008).