Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Sociology of the Short Story
Chapter 2: Anton Chekhov’s "Little Trilogy"
Chapter 3: The Mini-Cycle within a Cycle: Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches
Chapter 4: The Prototypical Mini-Cycle I: Alice Munro’s "Juliet Triptych"
Chapter 5: The Prototypical Mini-Cycle II: Margaret Atwood’s "Alphinland" Stories
Chapter 6: The Collection of Mini-Cycles
Chapter 7: The Two-Story Mini-Cycle
Chapter 8: The Prototypical Mini-Cycle Plus: Clark Blaise’s "Porter/Carrier Stories"
Chapter 9: The Exploded Mini-Cycle
Chapter 10: Marginal Cases
Conclusion
Biography
Allan Weiss received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Toronto (1985), with a specialization in Canadian literature. He has taught at York University since 1990, and is currently Associate Professor of English and Humanities. He has edited a number of collections of essays on Canadian fantastic literature, most recently The Canadian Fantastic in Focus (2014), a volume of proceedings of the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy, of which he has been Chair since 1996. He has also published articles and given conference papers on Canadian fantastic literature both in Canada and internationally.
