Segmentivity, narrativity and the short form
The Twitter stories of Moody, Egan and Mitchell
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13005186 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elke D’hoker (0000-0003-1326-0939, KU Leuven, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-20 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2043-0701 • E-ISSN: 2043-071X |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/fict.8.1-2.7_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2893093565 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article seeks to complement existing media-based approaches to Twitter fiction with a genre-based approach that considers it in the context of the genre and the tradition of the short story. After a brief introductory overview of Twitter fiction, I discuss three Twitter stories, written by established authors: Rick Moody’s ‘Some Contemporary Characters’ (2009), Jennifer Egan’s ‘Black Box’ (2012) and David Mitchell’s ‘The Right Sort’ (2014a). In a close textual analysis of these stories, I trace the impact of the Twitter format on the style, plot, themes and narrative techniques of these short stories. More particularly, I show how each of these works combines poetic and narrative techniques, or what DuPlessis has called ‘segmentivity’ and ‘narrativity’, in a different way. Finally, the conclusion considers the characteristics of these Twitter stories in the light of the tradition and the genre of the modern short story more in general
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |