Short Story as World Literature: The Deep History and Modern Lives of an Impure Genre - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Delia Ungureanu (Editor), Amândio Reis (Editor), Sofia Ahlberg (Editor)Series:Literatures as World LiteraturePublish date:2/5/2026Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765126738UPC:9798765126738Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Comparative Literature, Short Stories, Semiotics & TheorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2103Product ID:SCA4AGJVXH
Short Story as World Literature: The Deep History and Modern Lives of an Impure Genre
Global in scope, this volume uncovers the deep history of the short story as an "impure" genre by challenging the commonplace understanding in contemporary literary studies that the short story is primarily a product of Western modernity.
Genres do not have rigid, timeless, once-and-for-all definitions, and the short story is no exception. Short Story as World Literature invites the reader to...Series: Literatures as World Literature
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765126738UPC:9798765126738Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Comparative Literature, Short Stories, Semiotics & TheorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2103Product ID:SCA4AGJVXH
Delia Ungureanu is Executive Director of the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University, USA, and Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania.
Amândio Reis is Assistant Professor of Portuguese Studies in the Department of Romance Literatures at the University of Lisbon, School of Arts and Humanities, Portugal, and...Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Contributor(s)
Delia Ungureanu (Editor), Amândio Reis (Editor), Sofia Ahlberg (Editor)
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