For nearly a century of being underestimated as a literary genre, the short story is currently experiencing a revival. The editors of this collection of article

This book offers a wide-ranging survey of contemporary women's short stories and introduces a new way of theorising feminism in the genre through the concept of

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 a

How can the short story help to redefine modernism, postmodernism and their interrelationship? What is the status of the short story in modern literary history?

Short Story Theories: A Twenty-First-Century Perspective problematizes different aspects of the renewal and development of the short story. The aim of this coll