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Guest editors: Sergej Macura (University of Belgrade), Gábor Tamás Molnár (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) The international reception of Thomas Pynchon’s work has not received much scholarly attention, even though Pynchon is generally recognized as one of the most influential American prose writers of our era. The guest editors of this special issue intend to focus…
Out now, Vol. 12.1 of Short Fiction in Theory and Practice . This first of two special issues, guest-edited by Lucy Dawes Durneen, is dedicated to ‘The Health of the Short Story’. It includes articles, short fiction and reflective texts responding to that broad theme from many directions, including discussions of authors ranging from E….
Katherine Mansfield and France International conference organised by the Université Paris III —Sorbonne Nouvelle (EA 4398 PRISMES) in conjunction with the Katherine Mansfield Society 19–21 June 2014 Guest speakers will be: C. K. Stead, Sydney Janet Kaplan and Gerri Kimber 2014 seems the ideal year to celebrate Katherine Mansfield’s lifelong attachment to France and her passionate…
‘People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing and unfathomable—deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.’ (Munro, Lives of Girls and Women, 1971) Throughout her fourteen collections of short stories, Alice Munro has shown a clear interest in how her characters’ inner life and perception of the world are defined by the material…
A message from Dr Rodge Glass to all those interested in Alasdair Gray’s short fiction. Follow the link below for further information about this exciting event. The University of Strathclyde and the Alasdair Gray Archive, in partnership with the Glasgow School of Art, the University of Western Brittany (HCTI), Aix-Marseille Universite (LERMA), Edge Hill University,…
Short Fiction Theory and Practice ‘Materiality in the Short Fiction of Alice Munro’, guest edited by Corinne Bigot, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, and Christine Lorre, Sorbonne Nouvelle University “People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing and unfathomable—deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.” (Munro, Lives of Girls and Women, 1971. ShrThroughout her…