The Mini-Cycle

by Allan Weiss

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367691701
• ISBN13: 9780367691707
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"