Stories in letters - letters in stories : epistolary liminalities in the anglophone Canadian short story / Rebekka Schuh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schuh, Rebekka, author.

Series:

Buchreihe der anglia 03405435 ; 75

Buchreihe der anglia / anglia book series, 03405435 ; 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Canadian--History and criticism.

Short stories, Canadian.

Epistolary fiction--History and criticism.

Epistolary fiction.

Canadian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Canadian fiction.

Canadian fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Liminality in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Epistolary liminalities in the anglophone Canadian short story

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2021.

Summary:

This book deals with letters in Anglophone Canadian short stories of the late twentieth and the early twenty-first century in the context of liminality. It argues that in the course of the epistolary renaissance, the letter - which has often been deemed to be obsolete in literature - has not only enjoyed an upsurge in novels but also migrated to the short story, thus constituting the genre of the epistolary short story.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1 Introduction

2 The Current State of Research

Part I: Theoretical Considerations

3 The Epistolary Short Story in Canada and Beyond

4 Liminality and the Epistolary Short Story

Part II: Analytical Case Studies

5 The Epistolary Mode as First- and Second-Person Narration in the Single-Letter Story

6 Letters from Alice Munro, 'the Master of the Epistolary Short Story

7 Between 'Here' and 'There': Letters and the Experience of Migration

8 Conclusion

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783110726237

9783110726190

311072619X

OCLC:

1269268900