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Combining Individual Stories Into Larger Wholes
The inclination to combine individual stories into larger wholes goes way back into oral tradition. In the literary world this kind of story linkage is known as a short story cycle, or sequence (various other names exist but these have caught on). It is not a collection of isolated stories but collections of stories with common themes, imagery, and tone and often w ....
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.... Ohio (often referred to as a model of the modern short story cycle) the community is localised in a particular place, a small town. In this essay I will discuss this book as a cycle, and mention some of the theoretical writings on the subject. I will point out how the book is enhanced by the fact that the stories are interrelated and how individual stories suffer as a result of it.
In short story cycles, individual protagonists often appear in several sections to ....
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