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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Other Authors: Ungureanu, Delia (Editor), Reis, Am?andio, 1989- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2026].
Series:Literatures as world literature.
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505 0 |a To see a world in a grain of sand : the deep history and modern lives of an impure genre / Delia Ungureanu -- The invention of the frame tale / David Damrosch -- The shortness of epics : Gilgamesh between worm and world / Sophus Helle and Aya Labanieh -- The Islamicate short story and frame tale as world literature : beyond the Arabian nights / Michiel Leezenberg -- Mediterranean nights : traveling tales of Shahrazad and Hanna Diyab / Paulo Horta -- The adventures of Baron Munchausen's stories : all over the world (literature) and beyond / Maria Dabija -- The literary travels of Machado de Assis : prefaces, parodies, and miscellaneous papers / Am?andio Reis -- Perchance to dream : the story of the prodigal father in Shakespeare, Kafka and Nachman of Breslov / Michael Makarovsky -- Surrealist transformations : the short story beyond genre limits / Imre Jaozsef Balaazs -- A passion for form : the short story in Pasolini's notes, from La trilogia della vita to Petrolio / Annalisa Mirizio -- Translation's schism(s) : the trials and tribulations of Matteo Bandello's novelle (1554) in their French and English domestication / Beatrice Fuga -- The worlding of Japanese literature in Lafcadio Hearn's supernatural tales / Stefano Evangelista -- Mapping the epistemological tangle in the modern short story / Dominique Jullien -- East, west, east : aAdaam Bodor's de-localized Hungarian and Salman Rushdie's global English / Gaabor Tamaas Molnaar -- The virtues and lack of short stories in world literature / Mads Rosendahl Thomsen -- Brexit tales : refugee narratives and short story anthologies as world literature / Laura Lojo-Rodraiguez. 
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