...Tim Killick COPYRIGHT © 2008 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2008 THE PARADOX OF FAILURE IN THE MODERNIST AMERICAN SHORT STORY CYCLE TIM KILLICK, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY Since the publication of Forrest Ingram's pioneering study in 1971, the short story cycle (or short story...

... . São Paulo : Abril S/A Cultural e Industrial , 1981 . READING CLARICE LISPECTOR WITH JULIA KRISTEVA: FOUR SHORT STORIES FROM FAMILY TIES GRADY C. WRAY, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA "One is never happy making way for a new truth, for it always means making our way...

... Alan Chong . 1993 . “my ship does not need a helmsman.” In The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America , edited by Hongo Garrett . New York : Doubleday . A Short Long Story: Mapping the Course of Pain MARILYN MCENTYRE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Doctors write poetry...

...Aimee Armande Wilson This essay argues that the presence of birth control in a narrative interrupts generic conventions by conditioning modernist subjectivities. The symbolic possibilities of birth control carry the promise and threat of rupture. In the case of Flannery O'Connor's short story...

...Fiona McWilliam This essay seeks to rectify an ongoing problem in scholarship on Katherine Anne Porter. Porter's short story “He,” a key and often-anthologized text, is being read in a revised version without attention to those revisions or the story's original context, the October 1927 issue...

... organs, such as the ovaries, contributes to the problem. Metaphors can be reductive, but they can also generate a wide range of relationships between illness and the person experiencing it, as illustrated by examples including Margaret Atwood's short story “Hairball.” Simile, in particular, which...

...Dan Sinykin This essay develops a poetics of microfinance through an attempt to account for Jhumpa Lahiri's strange mention of the Grameen Bank in the short story “Sexy” from her collection Interpreter of Maladies . It shows how Lahiri's allusion links the intimacy of simulated global space...

... and think about living organs, or microbes, or pathophysiological processes that we cannot simply watch. Focusing on a range of representations of events beneath surfaces, from Jaws to X-rays to a short story about a white blood cell, this article examines the ways in which metaphor and narrative function...

... in this comparison is that, arguably, Bierce’s short story is the least dark of the three versions of what may be called the mood and genre of sardonic death, for it only denounces (especially in terms of free will versus determinism) the doomed man, while Enrico’s film elicits sympathy and Serling’s episode empathy...

... “The Damned Thing” ( 1893 ), two short stories that feature the same kind of supernatural phenomenon (a material ghost), the essay argues that apophasis can be used as a key to understand not only the rhetorical fabric of the fantastic genre but also its tropes and themes and its larger epistemological...

... of culture. Copyright © 2017 University of Oklahoma 2017 Lionel Trilling adaptation television middlebrow criticism short story Morals, Manners, and the Middlebrow: Lionel Trilling and the Television Adaptation of “Of This Time, of That Place” adam kaiserman The great...

... . Arcellana Francisco . “ Period of Emergence: The Short Story .” Brown Heritage: Essays on Philippine Cultural Tradition and Literature . Ed. Manuud Antonio G. . Quezon City : Ateneo de Manila UP , 1967 . 603 - 17 . Bresnahan Roger J. “ Jose Garcia Villa and Sherwood Anderson...

... . Allegories of Reading . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1982 . Derrida Jacques . Of Grammatology . Tr. Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty . Corrected edition . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1997 . Dunn Maggie Morris Ann . The Composite Novel: The Short Story...

... . Radical Mansfield: Double Discourse in Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories . London : Palgrave Macmillan . Dostoevsky Fyodor . 1989 . Notes from Underground . Edited and translated by Katz Michael R. . Norton Critical Edition . New York : Norton . Eichenbaum Boris . (1919...

... discus- sion in the collection, which covers a wide range of genres including the novel, short story, poetry, essay, and autobiography and a broad span of time from the beginning of Asian American literature in the late nineteen century to the pres- ent. The editors cast aside a thematically...

..., Du Bois resides both at the center and, ghostlily, at the periphery, infusing the book entirely. This approach is strategically effective. He emerges in brief, illuminating moments—for instance, in an analysis of “Jesus Christ in Georgia,” a short story originally published in the Crisis...

... of the genre. 332 GENRE Many of the problematic factors in arguments about autobiographical genre actually support the designation of The Woman Warrior and similar works as short story cycles, a mode that falls outside the widely recognized categories of story and novel...

... Nicole Reynolds 39 Shattered Dials and Mute Objects: The Surfaces of Lady Audley 's Secret Rachel A. Bowser 75 The (Im)possible Worlds of Joyce's 'Oxen of the Sun' Episode in Ulysses Margot Norris 95 The Paradox of Failure in Modernist American Short Story Cycle...

... , 2000 . Nagel James . The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State U Press , 2001 . Ortiz Simon J. ` Towards a National Indian Literature: Cultural Authenticity in Nationalism '. MELUS . ( 1981 ) 8 : 2 7 - 12...

.... (1897) 2000 . The Complete Short Stories . Edited by Hammond John . London : Phoenix Press . Williams Rhys . 2015 . “Wake up and Smell the Weird.” Los Angeles Review of Books , September 6 , lareviewofbooks.org/review/wake-up-and-smell-the-weird . Morbid Symptoms...