Rachel Lister
Biographic Data
| ID | 6874705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Lister |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Lister |
| SIGNATURE | LISTER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-7190-6025 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Wistful, intangible, maddening’: Liminality and kinship in the short story cycles of Eudora Welty, Jhumpa Lahiri and Elizabeth Hay
This article explores the potential of the short story cycle as a literary site for a particular kind of liminal experience: the liminality involved in forging platonic connections. Commentators on the short story cycle have established a fertile line of enquiry into the liminal properties of the form, exploring how writers have used it to capture a range of threshold states. This article focuses on writers who use the short story cycle to explor…
The short story sequence in the ‘Homeland of the novel’: A. S. Byatt’s The Matisse Stories
This article delivers a close, textual analysis of A. S. Byatt’s The Matisse Stories ([1993] 1994). It argues that Byatt’s text is an example of the short story sequence, a form that is only beginning to establish itself in England. The analysis demonstrates the benefits of reading The Matisse Stories ([1993] 1994) as a sequence of autonomous but linked stories. Focusing on a range of themes and formal properties, the article draws connections be…
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays (review)
Journal Article James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays. 2006. Revised Edition. Ed. Lovalerie King and Lynn Orilla Scott. New York: Palgrave, 2009. 352 pages. $80.00 cloth; $28.00 paper. Get access James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays. 2006. Revised Edition. Lovalerie King and Lynn Orilla Scott. New York: Palgrave, 2009. 352 pages. $80.00 cloth; $28.00 paper. Rachel List…
The short story sequence in the ‘Homeland of the novel’: A. S. Byatt’s The Matisse Stories
This article delivers a close, textual analysis of A. S. Byatt’s The Matisse Stories ([1993] 1994). It argues that Byatt’s text is an example of the short story sequence, a form that is only beginning to establish itself in England. The analysis demonstrates the benefits of reading The Matisse Stories ([1993] 1994) as a sequence of autonomous but linked stories. Focusing on a range of themes and formal properties, the article draws connections be…
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays (review)
Journal Article James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays. 2006. Revised Edition. Ed. Lovalerie King and Lynn Orilla Scott. New York: Palgrave, 2009. 352 pages. $80.00 cloth; $28.00 paper. Get access James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays. 2006. Revised Edition. Lovalerie King and Lynn Orilla Scott. New York: Palgrave, 2009. 352 pages. $80.00 cloth; $28.00 paper. Rachel List…
The short story sequence in the ‘Homeland of the novel’: A. S. Byatt’s The Matisse Stories
This article delivers a close, textual analysis of A. S. Byatt’s The Matisse Stories ([1993] 1994). It argues that Byatt’s text is an example of the short story sequence, a form that is only beginning to establish itself in England. The analysis demonstrates the benefits of reading The Matisse Stories ([1993] 1994) as a sequence of autonomous but linked stories. Focusing on a range of themes and formal properties, the article draws connections be…
‘Wistful, intangible, maddening’: Liminality and kinship in the short story cycles of Eudora Welty, Jhumpa Lahiri and Elizabeth Hay
This article explores the potential of the short story cycle as a literary site for a particular kind of liminal experience: the liminality involved in forging platonic connections. Commentators on the short story cycle have established a fertile line of enquiry into the liminal properties of the form, exploring how writers have used it to capture a range of threshold states. This article focuses on writers who use the short story cycle to explor…
Contemporary Literature and Criticism (3 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Short Stories in Global Literature (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Classics (1 works) · Eudora (1 works) · Flannery O'Connor and Thomas Merton (1 works)