Cross-currents in the modern short story : the novel and society in India / edited by Sucheta Mukherjee and Aditi Das Gupta

Includes appendices, bibliography and index

The sense of an ending: closure and disclosure in the short story -- Supriya Chaudhuri The postmodern short story in the Americas: from metaphor to 'diaphor' -- Krishna Sen On the short story as a new kind of writing -- Aniket Jaaware Structure and method in the short stories of D. H. Lawrence -- Mridula Kapoor Rabindranath's short stories: the beginning of an end -- Sibaji Banerjee Paul Zachariah and the miracles of a modern world -- Udaya Kumar Negotiating modernity: Fakir Mohan Senapati's 'Patent medicine' -- Jatindra K. Nayak Social conciousness in Ismat Chughtai's stories -- Shahnaz Nabi The contemporary Hindi short story -- Shambhunath Nosey tales of Troilokyonath and Gogol -- Kaushik Guha Overlapping of normalcy and neurosis: the morphology of Maupassant's weired tales -- Nilanjana Chakraborty To abbreviate/to narrate: Ray's Postmaster -- Moinak Biswas "And this concludes the case": the establishment of order in the detective short story -- Catherina Moss The sensual and the sublime -- Kamya Jaiswal Kurzgeschichte and the German world of disillusionment -- Suchi Arya "ডাক্তার! ডাক্তার!": সুস্থতার সন্ধানে দুটি চরিত্র - কাকলী ঘোষ "Doctor! Doctor!": Two characters in search of a remedy -- Kakoli Ghosh মর্তে অমর্তের আলো: দ্রষ্টা বিভূতিভূষণ -- মনস্বিতা বসু Celestial light on earth: an approach to Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (Banerjee) -- Monoswita Bosu The Enigma of human relationships -- Subhashree Ghosh