Re-framing the Modernist Short Story: Introduction

This issue of the Journal of the Short Story in English offers a selection of essays from the conference on “The Short Story and Short Story Collection in the Modernist Period: Between Theory and Practice” that was organized by the departments of literary studies of the universities of Ghent, Leuven and Perugia and took place in September 2013 at the Academia Belgica in Rome. The conference’s primary aim, as stated in the call for papers, was “to reflect on the modern short story [.] from a.