The short story - Cox, Ailsa (Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008)
"Small in a way that a bullet is small": reflections on writing short stories / A.L. Kennedy -- The short story: what is it exactly, what do we want to do with it, and how do we intend to do it? / John Beevers -- The whole story: the contemporary short story in sequence / Lucy Collins & Kathy Flann -- Notes towards the definition of the short-short story / Ashley Chantler -- How the listener was lured in: what makes a good crime short story? / Joanne Reardon -- East, West, and harmony: the short story as a space for translation / Jenni Ramone -- Reflected images: Calvino, Borges and writing a short story / Elizabeth Ingrams -- Anita Desai's "The rooftop dwellers": an alternative subaltern history / Karen D'Souza -- Treasure from the colonial past : a reading of Sir Frank Swettenham's "A silhouette" and "A mezzotint" / Mohamad Rashidi Pakri -- The subversive Cinderella: power dynamics and cultural imperialism in the short stories of Dorothy Edwards / Claire Flay -- The novelist on holiday: Martin Amis and the short story / Michael Greaney -- Ray Bradbury: the martian storyteller / Andrew Oldham -- Japanese female sadism: a comparative reading of Junichiro Tanizaki's "Tattoo" and Hitomi Kanehara's Snakes and earrings / Reuben Walsh -- Oh, whistle and I"ll come to you, my lad / Helen Newall.
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Keywords: Short story; Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Electronic books