Routledge Introduction to the Canadian Short Story

This volume aims to introduce undergraduates, graduates and general readers to the diversity and richness of Canadian short story writing, and to the narrative potential of short fiction in general.

List of contents

Introduction to the Volume
Part 1: The Genre of the Short Story and Its Emergence and Development in Canada
1. The Genre of Short Fiction and Its Position in the Canadian Literary Landscape
2. Sketchy Beginnings and "Becoming Canadian": From the Early 19th Century to Confederation Literature
3. From the Dawn of Modernism to the "Bursting Dam of the Sixties"
4. From the 1960s to the Mid-1980s: A Genre Establishes Itself
Part 2: The Canadian Short Story from the Mid-1980s to the Present
5. Metafiction and "Unnatural" Narrative Voices
6. Fragmentation in the "Era of the Vulnerable"
7. Gender Scripts and Queer Identities
8. Indigenous Short Fiction in English
9. Migration and Diaspora
10. Narratives of Loss – Domestic and Environmental Contexts
Afterword
Index

About the author

Maria Löschnigg received her Ph.D. at the University of Graz, where she is currently Associate Professor. Dr Löschnigg’s previous publications include The Epistolary Renaissance: A Critical Approach to Contemporary Letter Narratives in Anglophone Fiction, Green Matters: Ecocultural Functions of Literature, and The Anglo-Canadian Novel in the Twenty-First Century: Interpretations.

Summary

This volume aims to introduce undergraduates, graduates and general readers to the diversity and richness of Canadian short story writing, and to the narrative potential of short fiction in general.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Loschnigg, Maria Löschnigg
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9780367696498
• ISBN: 978-0-367-69649-8
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Routledge Introductions to Canadian Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Canada, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000