Liminality and the Short Story: Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian, and Br

Description: Liminality and the Short Story by Jochen Achilles, Ina Bergmann This book is a study of the short story, one of the widest taught genres in English literature, from an innovative methodological perspective. Both liminality and the short story are well-researched phenomena, but the combination of both is not frequent. This innovative collection discusses the relevance of the concept of limina FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book is a study of the short story, one of the widest taught genres in English literature, from an innovative methodological perspective. Both liminality and the short story are well-researched phenomena, but the combination of both is not frequent. This book discusses the relevance of the concept of liminality for the short story genre and for short story cycles, emphasizing theoretical perspectives, methodological relevance and applicability.Liminality as a concept of demarcation and mediation between different processual stages, spatial complexes, and inner states is of obvious importance in an age of global mobility, digital networking, and interethnic transnationality. Over the last decade, many symposia, exhibitions, art, and publications have been produced which thematize liminality, covering a wide range of disciplines including literary, geographical, psychological and ethnicity studies.Liminal structuring is an essential aspect of the aesthetic composition of short stories and the cultural messages they convey. On account of its very brevity and episodic structure, the generic liminality of the short story privileges the depiction of transitional situations and fleeting moments of crisis or decision. It also addresses the moral transgressions, heterotopic orders, and forms of ambivalent self-reflection negotiated within the short storys confines. This innovative collection focuses on both the liminality of the short story and on liminality in the short story. Author Biography Jochen Achilles is Professor of American Studies at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. His authored book publications include a study on the development of Sean OCaseys plays in the context of modern drama and a book on the interface between the gothic tradition and psychological fiction, focusing on Sheridan Le Fanu. His most recent book publications are co-edited volumes on representations of evil in fiction and film (2009) and on liminal anthropologies (2012). Ina Bergmann is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. She is the author of And Then the Child Becomes a Woman (2003) and co-editor of Global Challenges and Regional Responses in Contemporary Drama in English (2003) and Representations of Evil in Fiction and Film (2009). Table of Contents Part I: Liminality and the Short Story 1.1 Uses of Liminality 1. "Betwixt and Between": Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian, and British Short Fiction Jochen Achilles and Ina Bergmann Part II: The Liminality of the Short Story 2.1 Conceptualizations of Liminality 2. Modes of Liminality in American Short Fiction: Condensations of Multiple Identities Jochen Achilles 3. Liminal and Liminoid Discourses in Modernist Womens Short Fiction: Performance, Spectatorship, and Cinema Claire Drewery 4. In the Generic Interzone: On the Liminal Character of William S. Burroughss Routines Florian Zappe 2.2 Methods of Approach 5. Cognitive Liminality: On the Epistemology of the Short Story Michael Basseler 6. Experiencing Short Stories: A Cognitive Approach Focusing on Reading Narrative Space Renate Brosch 7. Between Story and Essay: Micro-Markers of Storyness Susan Lohafer 2.3 Conditions of Publication 8. "Small Tales": Brevity and Liminality in Early American Magazines Oliver Scheiding 9. The Liminal Spaces of Hawthornes Short Story Cycles: Rites of Passage in History and Story-Telling Alfred Bendixen 10. Variety in Unity, Unity in Variety: The Liminal Space of the American Short Story Anthology Kasia Boddy Part III: Liminality in the Short Story 3.1 Contexts of Writing 11. "I Have Heard Many Stranger Stories than This, in the Villages Along the Hudson": Magic Realism in Upstate New York Ina Bergmann 12. Madness as a Liminal State in the American Short Story: Edgar Allan Poes Ratiocin Review "This book will greatly enhance students knowledge of the historical evolution of the short story, and scholars of the short story genre will feel illuminated by the application of the theory of liminality to the conceptualization of the short story […] The contributors unique approach to the liminal aspects in the short story will allow readers to see the short story form in a new light." – Monika Elbert, Department of English, Montclair State University, USA Long Description This book is a study of the short story, one of the widest taught genres in English literature, from an innovative methodological perspective. Both liminality and the short story are well-researched phenomena, but the combination of both is not frequent. This book discusses the relevance of the concept of liminality for the short story genre and for short story cycles, emphasizing theoretical perspectives, methodological relevance and applicability. Liminality as a concept of demarcation and mediation between different processual stages, spatial complexes, and inner states is of obvious importance in an age of global mobility, digital networking, and interethnic transnationality. Over the last decade, many symposia, exhibitions, art, and publications have been produced which thematize liminality, covering a wide range of disciplines including literary, geographical, psychological and ethnicity studies. Liminal structuring is an essential aspect of the aesthetic composition of short stories and the cultural messages they convey. On account of its very brevity and episodic structure, the generic liminality of the short story privileges the depiction of transitional situations and fleeting moments of crisis or decision. It also addresses the moral transgressions, heterotopic orders, and forms of ambivalent self-reflection negotiated within the short storys confines. This innovative collection focuses on both the liminality of the short story and on liminality in the short story. Review Quote "This book will greatly enhance students knowledge of the historical evolution of the short story, and scholars of the short story genre will feel illuminated by the application of the theory of liminality to the conceptualization of the short story [...] The contributors unique approach to the liminal aspects in the short story will allow readers to see the short story form in a new light." - Monika Elbert, Department of English, Montclair State University, USA Details ISBN0367869306 Pages 282 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2019 ISBN-10 0367869306 ISBN-13 9780367869304 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Subtitle Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian, and British Writing Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Ina Bergmann DEWEY 823.010935 Birth 1948 Publication Date 2019-12-10 Short Title Liminality and the Short Story Language English UK Release Date 2019-12-10 AU Release Date 2019-12-10 NZ Release Date 2019-12-10 Series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Author Ina Bergmann Alternative 9780415738910 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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