Review of: The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture, 1880-1950, Elke D’hoker and Chris Mourant (eds) (2021) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 336 pp., ISBN 978-1-47446-108-5, h/bk, ISBN 978-1-47446-110-8, e-book, £90 hardback, £90 pre-order in paperback, £24.99
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Review of: The Short Story in German in the Twenty-First Century, Lyn Marven, Andrew Plowman and Kate Roy (eds) (2020) Rochester and New York: Camden House, 354 pp., ISBN 978-1-64014-046-2, h/bk, £75 The Dead Girls’ Class Trip, Selected Stories, Anna Seghers (trans. M. B. Dembo) (2021) New York: New York Review Books Classics 272 pp., ISBN 978-1-68137-535-9, p/bk, £13.99
书评:21世纪的德语短篇小说,林恩·马文,安德鲁·普洛曼和凯特·罗伊(编)(2020)罗切斯特和纽约:卡姆登之家,354页,ISBN 978-1-64014-046-2, h/bk, 75英镑死亡女孩的班级旅行,故事选集,安娜·塞格斯(译)。M. B. Dembo)(2021)纽约:纽约书评图书经典272页,ISBN 978-1-68137-535-9, p/bk, 13.99英镑
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Lucy Dawes Durneen introduces the second of two Special Issues of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice dedicated to the theme of ‘the health of the short story’. She reflects on the process of editing and arranging articles that speak to and across the individual issues, and the way in which this itself mirrors the short story’s trifold ability to diagnose, observe and potentially suture together resolutions for the challenges of the human condition, both within the boundaries of the text, and as a discrete tool for personal recovery.
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After the first death of Sherlock Holmes in 1893, both Arthur Conan Doyle and L. T. Meade turned to the medical short story in order to fill the gap in the popular market. While Meade’s series in The Strand (1893–96), in collaboration with Dr Clifford Halifax, were extremely popular and created a new, sub-genre of detective fiction, Doyle’s stories, published in Round the Red Lamp (1894) were not well-received. The irony in this comes from the fact that Meade managed to adapt the Sherlock Holmes formula to medical fiction, while Doyle did not learn from his own success.
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Short story collections, fragmentary assemblages, negotiate a particular kind of relationship to the corpus or ‘body of work’. They communicate an ambivalence about a process of embodiment and of growth. In their relationship to each other, as collected but non-continuous, they grow by means of a pulling apart, where each new piece ruptures, destroys, returns back to the beginning, that which has come before. This personal essay considers the writer’s own process of growing such a written body of work whilst in recovery from an eating disorder: whereby her own body’s reluctance to put on weight beyond the limits of the page is also played out in a struggle on the page. How to reconcile desire with its inevitable end, a body (of work)? The essay considers how, in its distaste the prospect of fullness and completion, the fragment may articulate a disordered relationship with nourishment but, when collected together, may offer a way to think about writing alternative bodies, non-conforming bodies, bodies which are always something less than whole. As such, writing becomes a tool in a recovery of a body of sorts. What is achieved in such fragmentary process may not be a healthy body, a reassuring body, but it is better than nothing and may better express the ambivalence and disturbance of body as process. Drawing small nourishment from Hélène Cixous, from Maurice Blanchot, the essay theorizes a kind of writing which has learnt to survive and, as a collection of fragments, does so as evidence or proof – of a ‘good enough’ body which, is of course, defined as much by the ways in which it falls short.
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The following article takes into consideration two cases of early modern female ‘monstrosity’ drawn from the Italian collection of Novelle published by Matteo Bandello in 1554. The events recount the stories of two mothers who, seized by ‘unnatural’ folly, kill in cold blood their own offspring. The article tackles the conflicting concepts of normality and malady, putting this ambiguous opposition in relation with the consequent translations of the Novelle in French and in English. The shifts that appear in the translations reveal a deep preoccupation with definitions of malady, be they physical or cultural. Through a close analysis of the original Italian text and its English rendition written by Geoffrey Fenton in 1567, this article sheds light on the troubled relationship of English translators with ‘Italianated’ thus ‘degenerate’ customs, and on their authorial and textual strategies to pre-empt the infectious potential of their Italian sources.
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This article examines the performativity of public health warnings embedded in Fannie Hurst’s short story ‘T.B.’ (1915). The author outlines the manner in which Hurst uses the short form to reinforce her warnings about tuberculosis in New York in the early twentieth century. Particular focus is given to Hurst’s theatricality of style, engaging with the dramatic structure of the short form, the spectacle of illness and the political significance of embodiment. This is done within the context of reclaiming Hurst as a writer of importance both to the field of medical humanities and to the study of the short form.
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Creative non-fiction about a personal experience of early miscarriage, which is a largely hidden loss. Reflecting on experiences in the early 1990s, a background of Northern Irish Catholicism, where women’s fertility is rigorously controlled, both informs attitudes and gives way to an earlier memory in the late seventies, where I felt I was in control of my fertility. However, the present reflection now considers reproductive control as something further than contraception; including those difficult times, when a body edges beyond our wills. Despite all our gains for autonomy and reproductive rights, involuntary miscarriage is a devastating loss, which we do not control.
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This article focuses on literature’s potential for healing – both medical and sociopolitical – in times of severe crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Affect is an important literary tool to make people aware of social inequalities, in particular reading or writing short stories with the experience of a simultaneous real-life pandemic. Reading is an embodied act through which the reader enters into a dialogue with both the author and the text. Emotions emerge that are often more deeply stored in memory than the words as such, and that changes our perception of the world. This effect is also encapsulated in Siri Hustvedt’s analysis of reading practices, Sara Ahmed’s affect theory and Rita Felski’s four ways of engaging with texts. I analyse John O’Hara’s short story ‘The Doctor’s Son’ (1935), situated in rural Pennsylvania at the time of the 1918 Influenza, and Victor LaValle’s ‘Recognition’ (2020), resonating with the COVID-19 pandemic in an isolated apartment building in New York City. Both stories question the concept of pandemics as the great levellers by pointing out social injustice due to class and ethnic hierarchies. Taking Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ (1842) and Poe’s emphasis on the preconceived and single effect of fear and subsequent horror caused by the ‘Red/Black Death’, as a starting point, the article presents O’Hara’s story as a manifestation of the medical, social and ethnic phenomena at work in 1918: social distancing, facial masks, closed public institutions, people’s resistance to these measures and medical treatment along ethnic and class lines. LaValle’s ‘Recognition’ allows readers a glimpse into the relationship between an unnamed African American woman, who is also the narrator, and Pilar, a Colombian American woman, who dies of the virus. As part of a contemporary Decameron project, ‘Recognition’ stresses the human need for community, communication and, thus mutual human recognition, giving the dead – whether rich or poor – a name and demanding to undo systemic social inequalities. In that sense, literature can heal the nation.
本文重点关注文学在医疗和社会政治方面的治愈潜力,尤其是在COVID-19大流行等严重危机时期。情感是一种重要的文学工具,可以使人们意识到社会不平等,特别是在阅读或撰写同时经历现实大流行的短篇小说时。阅读是一种具体化的行为,读者通过这种行为与作者和文本进行对话。情绪的出现往往比语言本身更深刻地储存在记忆中,这改变了我们对世界的看法。这种影响也体现在Siri Hustvedt对阅读实践的分析、Sara Ahmed的情感理论和Rita Felski的四种与文本互动的方式中。我分析了约翰·奥哈拉(John O ' hara)的短篇小说《医生的儿子》(1935年)和维克多·拉瓦勒(Victor LaValle)的《识别》(2020年),故事发生在1918年流感期间的宾夕法尼亚州农村,故事与纽约市一栋孤立的公寓楼里的COVID-19大流行产生了共鸣。这两个故事都通过指出阶级和种族等级造成的社会不公正,质疑流行病是伟大的平等者的概念。以埃德加·爱伦·坡的《红死病的面具》(1842)和坡对“红/黑死病”引起的恐惧和随后的恐怖的先入为主和单一影响的强调为起点,文章将奥哈拉的故事作为1918年工作中的医学,社会和种族现象的表现:社会距离,面具,封闭的公共机构,人们对这些措施的抵制以及沿着种族和阶级路线的医疗。拉瓦勒的《认出》让读者得以一窥一位不知名的非裔美国妇女(也是叙述者)与死于病毒的哥伦比亚裔美国妇女皮拉尔之间的关系。作为当代十日谈项目的一部分,“承认”强调了人类对社区、交流以及相互承认的需求,给死者——无论贫富——一个名字,并要求消除系统性的社会不平等。从这个意义上说,文学可以治愈民族。
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