Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle

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Title Page
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Contents
1 Introduction: Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle
SECTION I: Theory
	2 A Continuum of Fragmentation: Distinguishing the Short Story Cycle from the Composite Novel
	3 Bio-Cognitive Constraints in the Reception of Short Story Cycles
	4 Short Story Collections and Cycles in the British Literary Marketplace
SECTION II: Traditions
	5 A “shred and patch school of writing”: The Emergence of the Modern Short Story Cycle in Late Romantic Britain
	6 Recovered Coherence in an Early Short Story Cycle: Rudyard Kipling’s Plain Tales from the Hills
	7 A Cycle of Dislocation: Katherine Mansfield, Modernism, and Proto-Postcolonialism
SECTION III: Transformations
	8 Two Worlds in One Book: Ways of Sunlight and the Migrant Short Story Cycle
	9 The Fateful Cycle of Fairy Tales: Reading A. S. Byatt’s The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye
	10 Unity in Diversity? Imagining Europe in Julian Barnes’s Cross Channel
	11 Traumatic Cycles: Ali Smith and A. L. Kennedy
	12 Kazuo Ishiguro’s Portraits of Paralysis
	13 “Consuming themselves endlessly”: Women and Power in Livi Michael’s Short Story Cycle
	14 Re-Framing Feminist Politics in Helen Simpson’s A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories
	15 The Short narrative Form in David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks
List of Contributors
Index