What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subjectivity and representation. Through close readings of short stories and novellas by Poe, James, Hoffmann, Gautier, Nerval, Balza…
"Praise for Rikki Ducornet:A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat."--The New York Times"Linguistically explosive. one of the most interesting American writers around."-The NationThe Deep Zoo is a record of Ducornet's reading of the world, a gathering of a…
"Praise for Rikki Ducornet: A novelist whose vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat."--The New York Times. "Linguistically explosive...one of the most interesting American writers around."-The Nation. The Deep Zoo is a record of Ducornet's reading of the world, a gatherin…
Frank O'Connor was one of the twentieth century's greatest short story writers, and one of Ireland's greatest authors ever. Now, O'Connor's influential and sought-after book on the short story is back. This book offers a master class with the master. With his sharp wit and strai…
Frank O'Connor was one of the twentieth century's greatest short story writers, and one of Ireland's greatest authors ever. Now, O'Connor's influential and sought-after book on the short story is back. This book offers a master class with the master. With his sharp wit and strai…
Frank O'Connor was one of the twentieth century's greatest short story writers, and one of Ireland's greatest authors ever. Now, O'Connor's influential and sought-after book on the short story is back. This book offers a master class with the master. With his sharp wit and strai…
This volume is a collection of essays on black short stories written between 1998 and 1976. It aims to say something about the black short story as a genre and the development of the racial situation in America as well. The primary aim is to introduce the reader to this long neg…
This volume is a collection of essays on black short stories written between 1998 and 1976. It aims to say something about the black short story as a genre and the development of the racial situation in America as well. The primary aim is to introduce the reader to this long neg…
"Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective problematizes different aspects of the renewal and development of the short story. The aim of this collection is to explore the most recent theoretical issues raised by the short story as a genre and to offer theoretical …
For fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 years. In these folk tales, young women go on long and perilous quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese, and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help o…