Introduction: Fostering Collaborative Approaches to Short Story Research

The European Network of Short Fiction Research’s 2023 annual conference was held at the University of Manchester, focusing on the themes of landscape and temporality in the short story and the short story cycle. In writing the call for papers, we were curious to see how scholars, writers, and researchers were updating Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope in relation to the conference’s themes. Bakhtin defines the chronotope as “time space” which allows literary critics to analyse how ...