- Title
- The weight of a human heart
- Creator
- O'Neill, Ryan
- Relation
- http://www.blackincbooks.com/books/weight-human-heart
- Publisher
- Black Inc.
- Resource Type
- book
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- There has only been one full length study of Australian short fiction, and this did not explicitly trace the relationship between experimental and conventional stories, as has been done in one of the chapters of the exegesis. Similarly, few Australian short story collections have given equal weight to including experimental and realist stories, generally focusing on one or the other style. This portfolio is a collection of twenty short stories written in different styles utilising diverse settings from Africa to China to Australia. The collection consists of an equal number of realist and formally experimental short stories, including stories in the form of book reviews, homework assignments, graphs and charts. The Weight of the Human Heart provides an overview of the Australian short story from its beginnings in the 19th century to today. t explores the nature of metafiction, central to several stories in the collection. The nature of literary influence and its effect on the writing of the collection is also examined, with specific reference to James Joyce and his use of myriad literary style, Vladimir Nabokov and his experiments with form, and the Oulipo, and their use of constraints as a spur to creativity. The Weight of a Human Heart attempts to unite these two strands of the Australian literary tradition in one collection.
- Subject
- short story; metafiction; realism; literary tradition
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1059038
- Identifier
- uon:16510
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781863955577
- Language
- eng
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