Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle

Patrick Gill received his PhD in English literature from Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz where he is now a senior lecturer. His teaching and publications focus on the efficacy of literary form. He is the author of Origins and Effects of Poetic Ambiguity in Dylan Thomas’s Collected Poems (2014) and has published essays on poetry, contemporary fiction and British and American TV culture. Florian Kläger is Professor of English at the University of Bayreuth. He holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Düsseldorf and has published several books and essays on early modern literature, diasporic fiction, and the contemporary novel. His research interests are linked by the question after the formal resources of literature for the creation of social cohesion.

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• Table of Contents1 Patrick Gill, Florian Kläger Introduction: Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story CycleI: Theory2 Elke D’hokerA Continuum of Fragmentation. Distinguishing the Short Story Cycle from the Composite Novel 3 Anja Müller-WoodBio-Cognitive Constraints in the Reception of Short Story Cycles4 Corinna Norrick-RühlShort Story Collections and Cycles in the British Literary MarketplaceII: Traditions5 Mark IttensohnA "shred and patch school of writing": The Emergence of the Modern Short Story Cycle in Late Romantic Britain6 Rainer EmigRecovered Coherence in an Early Short Story Cycle: Rudyard Kipling’s Plain Tales from the Hills 7 Gerri KimberA Cycle of Dislocation: Katherine Mansfield, Modernism, and Proto-postcolonialismIII: Transformations8 Michael C. FrankTwo Worlds in One Book: Ways of Sunlight and the Migrant Short Story Cycle9 Louisa HadleyThe Fateful Cycle of Fairytales: Reading A. S. Byatt’s The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye10 Janine HauthalUnity in Diversity? Imagining Europe in Julian Barnes’s Cross Channel11 Valerie O’RiordanTraumatic Cycles: Ali Smith and A. L. Kennedy12 Jacob HovindKazuo Ishiguro’s Portraits of Paralysis 13 Roxanne Harde"Consuming themselves endlessly": Women and Power in Livi Michael’s Short Story Cycle14 Emma YoungRe-framing Feminist Politics in Helen Simpson’s A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories15 Gerd BayerThe Short Narrative Form in David Mitchell’s The Bone ClocksList of Contributors