The intention of this article is to analyse the intertextual influence between the American writer Lydia Davis and the French philosopher and critic Maurice Blanchot. This literary dialogue occurs as a result of Davis’ experience translating Blanchot’s most relevant critical and fictional texts. Davis’ role as a translator influenced her short fiction in which she discusses the limits of the literary space and therefore constantly challenges the genre as a way of fictionalizing Blanchot’s literary theory.
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The short story ‘What’s Wrong with Carpets’ continues in the Chekhovian tradition, exploring reality as it is while metonymically signifying the protagonist’s whole life through the glimpse. Moreover, by representing a slice-of-life from modern Britain, with younger generations experiencing job and housing insecurity as a consequence of economic conditions, the story is freighted with subtle sociopolitical implication. The story, therefore, works counter to Charles E. May’s contention that whilst the short story is able to render the mystery and ambiguity of human reality, it has never had a political agenda, and has never succeeded in emphasizing social content. The story is followed by a short essay on its composition.
{"title":"‘What’s Wrong with Carpets?’","authors":"J. Crane","doi":"10.1386/fict_00007_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00007_1","url":null,"abstract":"The short story ‘What’s Wrong with Carpets’ continues in the Chekhovian tradition, exploring reality as it is while metonymically signifying the protagonist’s whole life through the glimpse. Moreover, by representing a slice-of-life from modern Britain, with\u0000 younger generations experiencing job and housing insecurity as a consequence of economic conditions, the story is freighted with subtle sociopolitical implication. The story, therefore, works counter to Charles E. May’s contention that whilst the short story is able to render the mystery\u0000 and ambiguity of human reality, it has never had a political agenda, and has never succeeded in emphasizing social content. The story is followed by a short essay on its composition.","PeriodicalId":36146,"journal":{"name":"Short Fiction in Theory and Practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48844276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A multitude of voices: An interview with Lucy Wood","authors":"A. Cox, L. Wood","doi":"10.1386/fict_00009_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00009_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36146,"journal":{"name":"Short Fiction in Theory and Practice","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41630743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
An analysis of Beckett’s deconstruction of the short story and its impact on readers and writers. The importance of silence as an adjunct to his negative attitude towards language and its impact on the rudiments of short story writing is discussed. Supplementing the analysis is a summary of the arc of his short fictions from his earliest short story, ‘Assumption’, appearing when he was 23, to ‘Stirrings Still’, published the year before his death. Attention is paid to two writers influenced by Beckett, Clarice Lispector and Jennifer Egan, to show the importance of his revolutionary approach.
{"title":"Beckett’s fizzles: De-creating the short story","authors":"I. Nadel","doi":"10.1386/fict_00004_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00004_1","url":null,"abstract":"An analysis of Beckett’s deconstruction of the short story and its impact on readers and writers. The importance of silence as an adjunct to his negative attitude towards language and its impact on the rudiments of short story writing is discussed. Supplementing the analysis is\u0000 a summary of the arc of his short fictions from his earliest short story, ‘Assumption’, appearing when he was 23, to ‘Stirrings Still’, published the year before his death. Attention is paid to two writers influenced by Beckett, Clarice Lispector and Jennifer Egan,\u0000 to show the importance of his revolutionary approach.","PeriodicalId":36146,"journal":{"name":"Short Fiction in Theory and Practice","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66706644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The American Short Story Cycle, Jennifer J. Smith (2018)Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 194 pp.,ISBN 978-1-47442-393-9, h/bk, £75.00ISBN 978-1-47445-269-4, p/bk, £19.99Dead Voices, F. G. Paci (2019)Toronto: Guernica Editions, 285 pp.,ISBN 978-1-77183-319-6 (EPUB), ISBN 978-1-77183-318-9, p/bk, $25Eye, Marianne Micros (2018)Toronto: Guernica Editions, 142 pp.,ISBN 978-1-77183-258-8 (EPUB), ISBN 978-1-77183-257-1, p/bk, $20Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture, Chris Mourant (2019)Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 301 pp.,ISBN 978-1-47443-945-9, h/bk, £80
{"title":"Book Reviews","authors":"R. Luscher, Felicity Skelton, S. Whitehead","doi":"10.1386/fict_00008_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00008_5","url":null,"abstract":"The American Short Story Cycle, Jennifer J. Smith (2018)Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 194 pp.,ISBN 978-1-47442-393-9, h/bk, £75.00ISBN 978-1-47445-269-4, p/bk, £19.99Dead Voices, F. G. Paci (2019)Toronto: Guernica Editions, 285\u0000 pp.,ISBN 978-1-77183-319-6 (EPUB), ISBN 978-1-77183-318-9, p/bk, $25Eye, Marianne Micros (2018)Toronto: Guernica Editions, 142 pp.,ISBN 978-1-77183-258-8 (EPUB), ISBN 978-1-77183-257-1, p/bk, $20Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture, Chris\u0000 Mourant (2019)Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 301 pp.,ISBN 978-1-47443-945-9, h/bk, £80","PeriodicalId":36146,"journal":{"name":"Short Fiction in Theory and Practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47939570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"A. Cox","doi":"10.1386/fict_00001_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00001_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36146,"journal":{"name":"Short Fiction in Theory and Practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46165286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"A. Cox","doi":"10.1386/fict.9.1.3_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fict.9.1.3_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36146,"journal":{"name":"Short Fiction in Theory and Practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47508267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A collaboratively written prose piece, ‘Away from incident’ explores ideas of forms and processes. The authors’ poetics are embedded within the text.
这是一篇合作撰写的散文作品，“远离事件”探讨了形式和过程的想法。作者的诗学内涵在文本中得到了体现。
{"title":"Away from incident","authors":"Amy Lilwall, Rupert Loydell","doi":"10.1386/FICT.9.1.53_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/FICT.9.1.53_1","url":null,"abstract":"A collaboratively written prose piece, ‘Away from incident’ explores ideas of forms and processes. The authors’ poetics are embedded within the text.","PeriodicalId":36146,"journal":{"name":"Short Fiction in Theory and Practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44982276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Stealing from life’: An interview with Tessa Hadley","authors":"A. Ashworth","doi":"10.1386/FICT.9.1.65_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/FICT.9.1.65_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36146,"journal":{"name":"Short Fiction in Theory and Practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45100578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review","authors":"A. Hedgecock","doi":"10.1386/fict.9.1.61_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fict.9.1.61_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36146,"journal":{"name":"Short Fiction in Theory and Practice","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42489005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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