Includes bibliographical references Table of Contents; Introduction -- Maria Teresa Chialant and Marina Lops 1; PART ONE -- Temporality and Fiction; The Representation of Time in the Short Story: The Example of Henry James -- Vittoria Intonti 15; The Short Story: The Form in Time -- Annamaria Sportelli 29; Fiction in the Late Nineteenth Century: Serials, Serialisation, and the Short Story -- Laurel Brake 43; The Short Story in the "Naughty Nineties": The Case of George Egerton Marina Lops 57; 'An Event in the Lives of the Living': Time and Death in the Modernist Short Story -- Flora de Giovanni 71 Faits divers: Crime and Short Fiction -- Clotilde Bertoni 87PART TWO -- History, Memory and Myth; Time in Some Aussie and Kiwi Short Stories: Lawson, Baynton, Palmer, and Sargeson -- Angelo Righetti 105; Desperate Humanism: Saadat Hasan Manto's Short Stories and Sketches about Partition -- Rossella Ciocca 119; Myth and the Ambiguity of Time in Canadian Short Fiction: Sheila Watson's "Antigone" -- Biancamaria Rizzardi 131; Horses, Time and History in Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven: Tales of Simultaneity -- A. Lâmia Gülçur 141; PART THREE -- Experiments with Time Rudyard Kipling's Imperial Chronology in "The Lost Legion" -- Elio Di Piazza 155A 'Single Sitting' Story: H.G. Wells's "The New Accelerator" -- Mariateresa Franza 169; Time Matters: Joseph Conrad's "To-morrow" -- Maria Teresa Chialant 181; Siblings and Time in Four Short Stories: From Victorianism to Modernism -- Antonella Piazza and Marcella Soldaini 195; The Stranger's Time is a Moving Train, a Plane in Flight: Alice Munro's étranger -- Eleonora Rao 211; Future Vision: Time and Perspective in Margaret Atwood's Speculative-Fiction Short Stories -- Allan Weiss 225; Notes on Contributors 237 |
