Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction provides a fresh approach to reading material things in modern fiction, accounting for the interplay of the material and

This book reappraises the philosophical value of short fiction by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen, examining the stories through the len

Provides a clear introduction to the key terms and frameworks in cognitive poetics and stylistics

How can the short story help to redefine modernism, postmodernism and their interrelationship? What is the status of the short story in modern literary history?