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Naomi Mitchison’s Interwar Short Stories
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This chapter examines how Naomi Mitchison uses shorter prose forms for her storytelling at the level of the individual story or ‘tale’. It aims to show how and why her short stories, vignettes and episodic scenes counterpoint each other – and moreover coexist with her (much) longer works. The chapter will place her in relation to those of her contemporaries who were also using fiction in the 1920s and 30s for imaginatively investigative and politically charged purposes, especially in connection with the world of classical antiquity. Specific texts discussed in the chapter will include Mitchison’s stories of ancient Rome, gathered together in When the Bough Breaks (1924), and of Greece, gathered in Black Sparta (1928), as well as the novella Beyond this Limit (1935), illustrated by Wyndham Lewis.
Title: Naomi Mitchison’s Interwar Short Stories
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This chapter examines how Naomi Mitchison uses shorter prose forms for her storytelling at the level of the individual story or ‘tale’.
It aims to show how and why her short stories, vignettes and episodic scenes counterpoint each other – and moreover coexist with her (much) longer works.
The chapter will place her in relation to those of her contemporaries who were also using fiction in the 1920s and 30s for imaginatively investigative and politically charged purposes, especially in connection with the world of classical antiquity.
Specific texts discussed in the chapter will include Mitchison’s stories of ancient Rome, gathered together in When the Bough Breaks (1924), and of Greece, gathered in Black Sparta (1928), as well as the novella Beyond this Limit (1935), illustrated by Wyndham Lewis.
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