Malcolm The British and Irish Short Story Handbook

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5520-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Literature Handbooks

The British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readersthrough the development of the short story and the unique criticalissues involved in discussions of short fiction. It includes awide-ranging analysis of non-canonical and non-realist writers aswell as the major authors and their works, providing acomprehensive and much-needed appraisal of this area.
* Guides readers through the development of the short story andcritical issues involved in discussions of short fiction
* Offers a detailed discussion of the range of genres in theBritish and Irish short story
* Includes extensive analysis of non-canonical writers, such asHubert Crackanthorpe, Ella D'Arcy, T.F. Powys, A.E. Coppard,Julian Maclaren-Ross, Mollie Panter-Downes, Denton Welch, andSylvia Townsend Warner
* Provide a wide-ranging discussion of non-realist andexperimental short stories
* Includes a large section on the British short story in theSecond World War

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malcolm, David

Über Autor(innen)

David Malcolm is Professor of English Literature at theUniversity of Gdañsk. He is co-author (with Cheryl AlexanderMalcolm) of Jean Rhys: A Study of the Short Fiction (1996),and author of Understanding Ian McEwan (2002),Understanding Graham Swift (2003) and Understanding JohnMcGahern (2007). He is co-editor (with Cheryl AlexanderMalcolm) of British and Irish Short-Fiction Writers,1945-2000, Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 319(2006) and A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).