Sakr, Rita
(2008)
Staging Social and Political Spaces: Living Theatre
in Joyce’s “The Dead”.
Journal of the Short Story in English, 51.
ISSN 1969-6108
Abstract
In his study of the modernist short story, Dominic Head argues that: “The problem facing
short story critics is to find a way of escaping their own reductive formulae” (21). The
critical framework that the subject of “theatricality in the short story” sets is one of
several means to escape reductive formulae in short story criticism. Above all, such a
critical framework enables the envisioning of a more productively malleable definition of
the genre of the short story in relation to other genres. The required definition would
potentially reflect the need for flexibility which seems to be recurrently emphasized but
rarely satisfied in discussions of the genre of the short story. One example of these
discussions is an essay entitled “Destabilizing Frames for Story” in which Ian Reid touches
upon the adaptation of the story “Monsieur Seguin’s Goat” in Alphonse Daudet’s Letters
from My Windmill into a play entitled L’Arlésienne (The Girl from Arles). Through this
discussion, Reid shows that the text of Daudet’s story “signals its status as a meetingplace
for various generic tendencies”.
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