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A short story cycle (sometimes referred to as a story sequence or composite novel) is a collection of short stories in which the narratives are specifically composed and arranged with the goal of creating an enhanced or different experience when reading the group as a whole as opposed to its individual parts.
A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood.
If a short story collection as a whole has its own narrative, it is considered a short story cycle. History of short story collections. Short story collections have their roots in medieval frame tale collections, growing into the postmodern narratives of the 1900s. Short story collections either can be authored traditionally by one ...
17 de nov. de 2016 · Short Story Cycles: Between the Novel and the Story Collection; By Gerald Lynch, University of Ottawa Edited by Dominic Head, University of Nottingham; Book: The Cambridge History of the English Short Story; Online publication: 17 November 2016; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316711712.031
- Gerald Lynch
- 2016
The short story cycle – also called the novel-in-stories, linked stories, short story sequence, and short story composite – has been a richly generative genre for contemporary American writers. The short story cycle is, at its most essential, a volume of stories that are simultaneously interrelated and independent.
2 See, in particular, Gerald Lynch’s study of English-Canadian short story cycles, The One and the Ma ; 14 Though Kuo does not touch on the topic of the cycle, her view of musicality as Deleuzian “assemblage of multiple and diverse sensations” reminds us that Deleuze’s concepts might offer as intriguing a lens on the cycle as does Ahmed’s idea of “stickiness.”
The American Short Story Cycle spans two centuries to tell the history of a genre that includes both major and marginal authors, from Washington Irving through William Faulkner to Jhumpa Lahiri. 978-1-4744-2394-6.
