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The Short Story
An introduction to the history, culture, aesthetics and economics of the short story. The book pays attention to experimental, postcolonial and popular fiction alongside developments in Anglo-American, Hispanic and European literature.
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The postcolonial short story : contemporary essays
This book puts the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies and questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing on short fiction between 1975 and today - the period in which critical theory came to determine postcolonial studies - it argues for a sophisticated critique exemplified by the ambiguity of the form.
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Arms and the Woman: The Public Intellectual in Zoe Lambert’s The War Tour
This article explores Zoe Lambert’s short story collection, The War Tour (2008), in relation to the debates surrounding the public intellectual and the literary response to the War on Terror. It makes a claim for Lambert’s collection to be considered not only as the work of a public intellectual but that it also contests what it means to be an intellectual at a time of historical crisis. In dwelling upon real-life figures such as the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg and the physicist Lise Meitner, Lambert also reflects upon her own position as a supporter of the Stop the War Coalition. The relationship to the public sphere is complicated by Lambert’s gender, and of the women that she writes about; a complication which not only unsettles the definition of a public intellectual but is also articulated through the oblique strategies of the short story collection.
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Legacies of Romanticism
This book visits the Romantic legacy that was central to the development of literature and culture from the 1830s onward. Although critical accounts have examined aspects of this long history of indebtedness, this is the first study to survey both Nineteenth and Twentieth century culture.
The authors consider the changing notion of Romanticism, looking at the diversity of its writers, the applicability of the term, and the ways in which Romanticism has been reconstituted. The chapters cover relevant historical periods and literary trends, including the Romantic Gothic, the Victorian era, and Modernism as part of a dialectical response to the Romantic legacy. Contributors also examine how Romanticism has been reconstituted within postmodern and postcolonial literature as both a reassessment of the Modernist critique and of the imperial contexts that have throughout this time-frame underpinned the Romantic legacy, bringing into focus the contemporaneity of Romanticism and its political legacy. This collection reveals the diversity and continuing relevance of the genre in new and exciting ways, offering insights into writers such as Browning, Ruskin, Pater, Wilde, Lewis, MacNeice, and Auster.
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Editorial
Yet, this decade has been largely neglected from the viewpoint of sf studies, although as Peter Keating observed in The Haunted Study (1989), this was also the moment when 'the relentless fragmentation and categorisation of fiction' began in earnest. [...]to mark the 150th issue of Foundation and to complement such recent studies as John Rieder's analysis of mass cultural genres, we thought it would be timely to solicit articles on science fiction from 150 years ago. [...]Kristine Larsen offers a survey of comet fictions in which she demonstrates the 1870s to be a pivotal decade in the development of this subgenre.
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Editorial
The conference was co-organized with Sarah Brown and Anglia Ruskin University; Sarah and her postgraduate students, Kathleen Hughes and Veronica Wilson, battled successfully with updates to MS Teams, a global computer virus, and UK storms that brought flash-flooding and blackouts. Jasmine Wade concentrates upon Jemisin's novel in order to think through both slavery and ecological disaster as symptoms of settler colonialism. To mark the centenary of Russell Hoban's birth, I am delighted to publish my 2020 interview with Dominic Power about his 1997 radio adaptation of Riddley Walker. F152 will be guest-edited by Taylor Driggers-McDowall and Alice Langley, and will feature a selection of papers from the academic track at Glasgow 2024.
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Talking My Riddels: A Conversation with Dominic Power
Since it's very clear that you have to use the language, I remember the delight when I could actually speak it, and I was able to riff on the language, and that was just wonderful. Because if you trust the book, it just takes you there. [...]my biggest challenge was getting it in on time, and getting it inside two hours, which I failed. [...]I felt that the book was taking me along with it, and that gives you a strange sense of enormous confidence. Because they read fine if you do it right, and the language is so good in creating this fragmented world.
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Private Rites
[...]the setting of Private Rites has less to do with the titular 'drowned world' of Ballard's novel, a work retrospectively (and erroneously) reclaimed for climate change fiction, than with a running preoccupation in Armfield's writing that she equates with her lived condition as a young gay woman residing in a patriarchal and heterosexist society. In particular, the constricted spaces, degraded living conditions, haphazard work routines, periods of languor, rising tempers and bursts of sexual energy all speak to the weird temporalities of life lived under the plague. In the final, calculated whitening-out of her prose, we sense the New Weird - so vivid and bright at the start of this century - turn pale and cold like the guttering, melancholic light of a dying sun.
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