Short Story as World Literature

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 editor-in-chief of Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies.

In this most timely volume a stellar cast of scholars sheds light on all aspects of the short story as an eminently world literary genre.

• List of Figures Introduction: To See a World in a Grain of Sand: The Deep History and Modern Lives of an Impure GenreDelia Ungureanu, Harvard University, USA Part 1. The Temporal Axis 1. The Invention of the Frame Tale David Damrosch, Harvard University, USA 2. The Shortness of Epics: Gilgamesh Between Worm and World Sophus Helle, Princeton University, USA and Aya Labanieh, Columbia University, USA 3. The Islamicate Short Story and Frame Tale as World Literature: Beyond the Arabian Nights Michiel Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands 4. Mediterranean Nights: Traveling Tales of Shahrazad and Hanna Diyab Paulo Lemos Horta, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE 5. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen’s Stories: All Over the World (Literature) and Beyond Maria Dabija, Harvard University, USA 6. The Literary Travels of Machado de Assis: Prefaces, Parodies, and Miscellaneous Papers Amândio Reis, University of Lisbon, Portugal 7. Perchance to Dream: The Story of the Prodigal Father in Shakespeare, Kafka, and Nachman of Breslov Michael Makarovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 8. Surrealist Transformations: The Short Story beyond Genre Limits Imre József Balázs, Babel-Bolyai University, Romania 9. A Passion for a Form: The Short Story in Pasolini’s Notes, from La Trilogia della vita to Petrolio Annalisa Mirizio, University of Barcelona, Spain Part 2. The Spatial Axis 10. Translation’s Schism(s): The Trials and Tribulations of Matteo Bandello’s Novelle (1554) in Their French and English DomesticationBeatrice Fuga, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France 11. The Worlding of Japanese Literature in Lafcadio Hearn’s Supernatural Tales Stefano Evangelista, Oxford University, UK 12. Mapping the Epistemological Tangle in the Modern Short Story Dominique Jullien, University of California Santa Barbara, USA 13. East, West, East: Ádám Bodor’s De-localized Hungarian and Salman Rushdie's Global English Gábor Tamás Molnár, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary 14. The Virtues and Lack of Short Stories in World Literature Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University, Denmark 15. Brexit Tales: Refugee Narratives and Short Story Anthologies as World Literature Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain Contributors Index