User:LaineNichols/Short story collection/Bibliography

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[1] This book reviews the history of the short story. It does not specifically address short story collections as a genre, but does mention them as a means of publishing short stories, as well as novellas. It offers Edgar Allen Poe as the founder of the short story genre, though I’m not sure whether I’ll mention this or not since something like Grimm’s Fairy Tales would surely also be considered a collection of short stories. In fact, the book itself references the Grimm book on page 15. The point of short story collections is to gather short stories together for publishing purposes. This is often done for economic reasons. This is important because short stories are often less than fifty pages, so putting short stories together can provide something that is more the size of a novel. I plan on using this source for discussing the purpose of short story collections.

Genres are tricky things to put hard boundaries around, as the field of genre theory can attest, and as I'm sure you'll find as you get deeper and deeper into this - that article we looked at together in your conference that argued that the story cycle is the same genre as a short story collection would certainly put the founding of the short story genre well before Poe (and well before Grimm's Fairy Tales, too). When I googled a little around this question, seemed like people are crediting Poe as being the "architect" of the "modern short story." See this Cambridge Companion that names him as the "first significant theorist of the modern short story" and points to his reviews of Hawthorne to explain (Hawthorne wrote lots of short stories, too, so he def preceded Poe): https://books.google.com/books?id=W755ymfap4sC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=poe+architect+modern+short+story&source=bl&ots=bFjN4k83w1&sig=ACfU3U0jSIo_o4XXJCsvL3ezGBx0H26HTw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-idfCzaLoAhUFYKwKHcGlCs0Q6AEwC3oECA8QAQ#v=onepage&q=poe%20architect%20modern%20short%20story&f=false
I did a search using the terms "origin short story" that brought me to this interesting article, "The Integrated Short Story Collection: Caught Between Genre and Mode,"[2] which is really about the short story collection genre in Portuguese but begins with a brief gloss of the history of the short story collection in English. Elizabeth.f.chamberlain (talk) 23:29, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

[3] This is a literary journal article about the history of short story collections and what it means to be a short story collection. It discusses briefly where short story collections come from and how they are written and published, later giving some examples of early short story collections. It also discusses the difference between a single short story, a short story collection, and a novel. Furthermore, it argues how the inclusion of a short story into a collection changes the meaning of that story. I plan on using this source extensively to explain some of the fundamentals of short story collections. It will be helpful for looking at short stories in the abstract. However, the wording of the article is very academic, so I’m going to try to paraphrase and explain in a much simpler way.

The point about changing the meaning of a story seems especially salient to me. I'm thinking here about how when I first read Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People" on its own, I was shocked by it; but when I encountered it later in her collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find, it seemed like a variation on a theme, this idea that people aren't always what they seem, and there's some Machiavellian self-interest hidden behind what might seem at first like folksy down-home goodness. Elizabeth.f.chamberlain (talk) 23:29, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

[4] This journal article analyzes the educational benefits of short story collections. I could use it to discuss the applications and benefits of short stories aside from their entertainment value. The author lists five potential applications of short story collections in the article. The first is the ability to quickly experience other cultures and traditions through a literary lens. The second is to encourage interest in historical studies by providing short story collections centered around that time. The third is to use short story collections as an introduction or exploration of a genre. By providing several works from that genre, students can get a feel of its conventions. The fourth is to challenge students to evaluate and criticize literature using short story collections as a jumping off point. The last idea is to use short story collections as a model for student writing. Often, reading classical greats can be daunting or impossible for a student to replicate in writing. However, newer, more bite-sized short story collections might be a good way for students to get the depth of exposure they need while not overwhelming them.

An "educational benefits" section is a possibility, or even something broader, like "uses of" or "reception" or something like that.
This idea led me to some searches about how well short stories have been selling. I found this article that said in 2017, almost 50% more short story collections were sold than in the previous year, cites reviews of short story collections, and quotes people describing a short story renaissance. But it also says the renaissance is a myth, that most short story collections are published with small runs.[5] This article from 2013 points to George Saunders's success with the Tenth of December as the reason for a boom in short story collections.[6] Elizabeth.f.chamberlain (talk) 23:29, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

[7] This online newspaper article lists ten short story collections from 1922 - 2014 with a short summary and praise for each collection. The article includes both themed and non-themed works. Themed works include This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You by Jon McGregor—since all those stories take place in the same place—and Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver in which all the stories share a theme of “suburban disenchantment.” Many of the other works on the list, such as The Collected Stories by Lorrie Morre and The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield, appear to be non-themed. I plan on using this list, along with other primary texts, to create my list of themed and non-themed short story collections.

  1. ^ Fatma, Gulnaz (2012-01-01). A Short History of the Short Story: Western and Asian Traditions. Modern History Press. pp. 15, 33. ISBN 978-1-61599-177-8.
  2. ^ Achter, Erik Van (1 January 2012). "The Integrated Short Story Collection: Caught between genre and mode". Forma Breve (in Portuguese) (9): 61–73. doi:10.34624/fb.v0i9.5698. ISSN 2183-4709.
  3. ^ Santi, Mara (2014). "Performative Perspectives on Short Story Collections". Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties (12): 143–154. ISSN 2031-2970.
  4. ^ Lesesne, Teri S. (1994). "Forming Connections and Awakening Visions: Using Short Story Collections in the Classroom". The ALAN Review. 21 (3). ISSN 1547-741X.
  5. ^ Power, Chris (12 March 2018). "Complete fiction: why 'the short story renaissance' is a myth". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  6. ^ Kaufman, Leslie (15 February 2013). "Good Fit for Today's Little Screens: Short Stories". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  7. ^ Day, Elizabeth (2014-10-17). "The 10 best short story collections". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-03-09.
Looks great. You've got some really good resources here.

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