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Book SynopsisThese eight texts deal with different perspectives on the relation between the regional short story, modernism and space. Seven of them concentrate on short prose (the short story and chronicle) and one deals with the novel. Four of them consider canonical pre-modernist and modernist Anglo-American authors and the other four Portuguese rustic and modernist short story writers. Their common point of departure is the notion that the representation of the world cannot be separated from its spatial context, and the effort to understand how space and landscape influenced the structure of narratives and were represented in some of them, mainly in short fiction. They draw attention to the importance of the underestimated regionalist short prose narratives, essentially from a comparative literary perspective, but also considering certain aspects of their social and cultural connections and dissonances.
Table of ContentsHeidegger and Virginia Woolf: creating and interpreting the world – The hybrid genesis of the short story in Washington Irving’s The Alhambra – Regional dissonance: space and landscape in the short story cycle – K. Mansfield’s «The Escape»: an epiphany on impossibility – Regionalism in the Portuguese short story – Lisbon, the city manquée or nostalgia for another place – Narrative frames: Fialho de Almeida, Branquinho da Fonseca, Mário Braga and João de Araújo Correia – Landscape in rural space – Worldview and ambivalence in Portuguese regionalist short prose narrative
