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This thesis investigates Australian short story cycles written in the twenty-first century. I argue that the short story cycle, as a form, is particularly conducive to engaging with twenty-first century concerns such as anthropogenic climate change, the simultaneously immersive and alienating aspects of life in the digital age, and the changing nature of subjectivity. More specifically, my research is an attempt to identify and explicate the narrative strategies particular to short story cycles, so that contemporary writers may look to this form when attempting to write fiction about twenty-first-century life. Through close formal reading of three case studies, The Flight of Birds by Joshua Lobb (2019), Rubik by Elizabeth Tan (2017), and my own cycle, Thanks for Having Me, this dissertation examines the formal properties of twenty-first-century short story cycles: multiplicity, connectedness, and the return story. This analysis is coupled with the practicebased component of the thesis ....
In the 21st century, the demands of digital presence and the distractions of the internet simultaneously challenge writers wishing to represent contemporary life and threaten the attention readers are willing to give to literature. In this paper I argue that the short story cycle is a literary form that is capable of representing digital life and does so in a way that extends and expands the way that we read. I take Elizabeth Tan’s 2017 book Rubik as my case study and my analysis focuses on the way Tan uses two key features of the short story cycle form to represent and simulate life in the digital age. I begin with a discussion of how Tan uses the multiplicity of the cycle form to demonstrate the polymediation of life in the developed world and that the use of discrete, separate stories in the cycle allows for switches in voice and style which not only simulates the polyphony of digital life but also encourages us to contrast the different ways individuals use mobile technology to m ....
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