While scholars have been studying the short story cycle for some time now, this book discusses a form that has never before been identified and named, let alone analyzed: the mini-cycle. A mini-cycle is a short story cycle made up, in most cases, of only two or three stories. This study looks at mini-cycles spanning the period from Anton Chekhov's "little trilogy" (1898) to the "Alphinland" stories in Margaret Atwood's Stone Mattress (2014), including texts by such authors as Stephen Leacock, Alice Munro, Robert Olen Butler, and Clark Blaise. Consideration is also given to marginal examples, like Sherwood Anderson's "Godliness-A Tale in Four Parts" (1919), which can be seen as one story or four distinct texts unified under one title, and to what is called the "exploded" mini-cycle: one whose component stories are published with intervening stories between them rather than consecutively. For each mini-cycle, the analysis is based on close reading of both the linking elements-character, imagery, symbolism, and so forth-and the rhetorical and aesthetic effects of the mini-cycle's being made up of distinct stories rather than constructed as one long narrative.

The Mini-Cycle (Routledge New Textual Studies in Literature)

Weiss, Allan

Teen & Young Adult

Routledge

WHO CAN HELP... <ul> <li>when a word decides to get up and leave your holy book?</li> <li>when you're a mayor and your city is literally crumbling around you?</li> <li>when the evil Haman, villain of the Purim story, seems to have arisen from the dead to terrorize your town?</li> </ul> Eliezer ben-Avraham, wizard, Kabbalist, and kvetch, not only can but must help. Because he poked around in areas of forbidden knowledge, he is obliged to wander the world and use the powers he gained to perform good deeds--mitzvot--for anybody who asks, no matter how bizarre the task. Ably assisted by his trusty but cynical steed, Melech, Eliezer does what he can, although transforming into a bird and flying around is difficult when you have arthritis in your shoulder. Humorous, philosophical, and very weird, Eliezer's adventures as he makes his rounds demonstrate how important it is to be generous with your gifts, even to the craziest goyim.

Making the Rounds

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing

Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People

Historian Thomas Cahill argued that it was the Jewish people who invented the very concept of history as we know it. They were the first to perceive time not as an endless circle of life, death and rebirth, but as the flight of an arrow, on a linear path to somewhere from somewhere. But what if time is not one arrow, but a volley of arrows? What if there are other timelines, other histories, other Jews? Would they still have a covenant with the one God, or would they know strange gods? Would they have survived banishment, pogrom and Holocaust? What if the Holocaust had not occurred? Or what if it had succeeded beyond Hitler's darkest dreams? Some of the world's greatest speculative fiction authors explore these roads not taken, and many others, in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, the first-ever anthology of Jewish alternate history fiction. Contributors include Jack Dann, Robert Silverberg, Harry Turtledove, Jane Yolen, Lavie Tidhar and Benjamin Rosenbaum, among many others!

Dann, Jack

TURTLEDOVE, HARRY

Reisman, Jessica

Shvartsman, Alex

Choi, Eric

Tidhar, Lavie

Kressel, Matthew

Goldberg, James

Rosenbaum, Benjamin

Polack, Gillian

Takács, Bogi

Rafael, Rivqa

GOMEL, ELANA

LALUMIÈRE, CLAUDE

Silverberg,Robert

Garfinkle, Gwynne

Nurenberg, David

MAYNE, SEYMOUR

YOLEN, JANE

Latta, D.K.

Alter, Seth

Beaulier, Patrick

Dyen-Shapiro, Allan

Eden, Hunter C.

Grozny, Isak

McDaniel, C. L.

Nicholls, Jack

Sparber, Max

Verskin, Milton

World Literature

ChiZine Publications

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