Linked Stories, Connected Lives: The Lucky Ones as Short Story Cycle by Elke D’HOKER

“…The form of the short story cycle allows Cusk to stage a variety of perspectives on parenthood and family life within one book. …”
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Specificity of Comedy in Contemporary Kazakh Prose (E. Tursunov’s Short Story Cycle) by A. T. Baktybayeva, A. A. Bizhanova

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Being your own Bae: writing within and against homonationalism in the short story cycle by Yam, Daryl Qilin

“…Ultimately, the project aims to explore the forms of the short story and the short story cycle as creative strategies for queer worldbuilding, writing within and against homonationalism, demonstrated via the four stories included in this particular thesis. …”
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Tourism and Identitary Conflicts in Monica Ali's Alentejo Blue by Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez

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Ways of Looking: The Composite Novel and Posthuman Community in Jon McGregor's Reservoir 13 by Adele Guyton

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‘Many dark ribbons’ ou le format mis en fiction : The Golden Apples de Eudora Welty by Jean-Marc Victor

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Poetics of Title in Ivan Bunin’s Short Story “The Emerald” by E. V. Ushakova

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Adapting fragmentation: changing borders in Olive Kitteridge (HBO 2014); Case Histories, (BBC 2011-2013); Love and Friendship (2016) and Sanditon (ITV 2019) by Armelle Parey

“…Conversely, borders may be multiple when the text is fragmentary, i.e. made up of several others, as in an epistolary novel devoid of a unifying voice or a short-story cycle which multiplies (intermediary) borders. …”
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Nine yard sarees : a family portrait by Prasanthi Ganapathy Ram

“…The creative project (redacted) is a short story cycle titled Nine Yard Sarees that considers the varied evolutions of the Tamil Brahmin community in its migration out of the homeland into the global diaspora. …”
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Présence du végétal dans The Golden Apples de Eudora Welty by Jean-Marc Victor

“…This article proposes to examine Eudora Welty’s short story cycle The Golden Apples (1949) in the light of the links (both explicit and secret) between this peculiar narrative form and various questions pertaining to botany : classification, dissemination, proliferation, pollinization, among others.…”
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Ordinary Stories in Extraordinary Times: Marcie Hershman’s Tales of the Master Race by Stanislav Kolář

“… This paper examines the categories of perpetrators, bystanders and victims as represented among the characters of Marcie Hershman’s short story cycle Tales of the Master Race. The main focus is on the characters of perpetrators, as it is predominantly from their perspectives that Hershman depicts life in a small German town during the Third Reich. …”
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Bird, sweat, and tears and other stories: a collection of short stories and an exegesis by Ess, Aubrey Gabrelyn

“…Set in Singapore, my short story cycle contains seven stories from the mid-1950s to the mid-2020s.…”
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A Drinking Problem just like Grandpa’s by Mikkel Jensen

“… Mikkel Jensen’s article “A Drinking Problem just like Grandpa’s” is a close reading of a single short story from Douglas Coupland’s 1994 short story cycle Life After God. The story, “Little Creatures”, portrays a gloomy drive a father takes with his child up to meet the child’s grandfather, referred to as “the golf-wino”. …”
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Female Body as a Source of Shared (Hi)stories: On Munro’s Del and Joyce’s Eveline by Ana Penjak

“…This paper elicits and compares shared (hi)stories told on and by the bodies of two female characters – Del Jordan in Alice Munro’s short story cycle Lives of Girls and Women (1971) and Eveline Hill from James Joyce’s short story “Eveline” from the collection Dubliners (1914). …”
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Possessed by Postmemory: Thane Rosenbaum’s <i>Elijah Visible</i> by Stanislav Kolář

“…This paper analyses the short story cycle Elijah Visible by Thane Rosenbaum, who represents the second generation of American writers responding to the Holocaust. …”
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Relocated from an Elevator to a Cattle Car: Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma in Thane Rosenbaum’s Elijah Visible by Stanislav Kolář

“… This article analyzes Thane Rosenbaum’s short-story cycle / novel-in-stories Elijah Visible in which the fragmented postmodern protagonist Adam Posner is profoundly affected by the traumatic legacy of his parents. …”
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Adverbials of Time, Time Expressions and Tense Shifts in Alice Munro’s “Dance of the Happy Shades” by Katja Težak

“…Her literary work comprises short stories and one novel, which can more accurately be described as a short story cycle. She takes interest in everyday, small-town life and the human relationships in it, all described in concise, down-to-earth language. …”
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Across community barriers: female characters in Vimala Devi’s short stories by Cielo Griselda Festino

“…The collection can be read as a short-story cycle, a group of stories related by locality, Goa, character, Goans, from all walks of life, and theme, in particular women´s milieu, among other literary categories. …”
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G. K. Chesterton and the Impossible Revolution by Suzanne Bray

“…This article examines, in context, how Chesterton’s revolutionary ideas are portrayed in his fiction and mainly in his most political short story cycle, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922). It will analyse how the stories provide a strong criticism of British political life at the time and show why, in Chesterton’s opinion, the only revolution which would really give any power to the people was very unlikely to happen.…”
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JENNIFER EGAN’S “A VISION FROM THE GOOD SQUAD”: A NARRATIVE OF HEALTH, DISEASE, AND DEATH by Mihaela MUDURE

“…This paper analyzes Jennifer Egan’s novel/ short story cycle entitled A Visit from the Goon Squad, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. …”
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