Short Story as World Literature : The Deep History and Modern Lives of an Impure Genre

evolves, sometimes almost beyond recognition, across different forms of art, genres, and media, as well as through translation and circulation - with effects on institutions, educational politics, and the construction of a moral system of values. An international team of established and emerging scholars in the fields of comparative and world literature - including David Damrosch, Paulo Horta, Dominique Jullien, and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, as well as Maria Dabija, Sophus Helle, and Michael Makarovsky - untangle this complex and complicated (hi)story. [Publisher's text]