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?

Postmodernism, as a mode of the contemporary short story, has been clearly established and recognized by short story theorists. But postmodern theory, as pervas

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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?

The modernist period saw a revolution in fictional practice, most famously in the work of novelists such as Joyce and Woolf. Dominic Head shows that the short s