Short story as world literature : the deep history and modern lives of an impure genre /
Genres do not have rigid, timeless, once-and-for-all definitions and the short story is no exception. This volume invites the reader to reflect on the historical becoming of this impure genre, analyzing various forms of the short story throughout its deep history. It also challenges established idea...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2026].
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| Series: | Literatures as world literature.
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| Summary: | Genres do not have rigid, timeless, once-and-for-all definitions and the short story is no exception. This volume invites the reader to reflect on the historical becoming of this impure genre, analyzing various forms of the short story throughout its deep history. It also challenges established ideas about the genre that limit its history to the prose form practiced by Edgar Allan Poe and canonized in western Europe following Charles Baudelaire's influential translation. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9798765126738 9798765126721 |