The Mini-Cycle
Allan Weiss, The Mini-Cycle (Routledge, 2021)
The Mini-Cycle examines a genre that has not been identified, let alone studied, before: the short story cycle made up of only two or three stories. The conventional story cycle comprises around eight or ten linked short stories, enough to fill a volume; the mini-cycle, on the other hand, generally appears in a single-author collection of otherwise unrelated stories. The study offers an analysis of mini-cycles by such authors as Anton Chekhov, Stephen Leacock, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Robert Olen Butler, and Clark Blaise, as well as studies of texts that lie somewhere on the border between mini-cycles and multi-part single stories or story series.
Year of Publication: 2021Publisher website
Allan Weiss