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Abstract
How do train stories work distinctively?
This paper seeks to understand how stories set on trains enable clear beginnings and endings and a unifying structure.
It proposes to do this by hypothesising/identifying tropes that appear in train stories and testing them for exclusive veracity
Train compartments contain passengers in a diorama moving through panoramas [setting]. Interior carriage provocations and baggage brought aboard can catalyse action [psychology and plot], lead to powerful human connections and revelations, and test existing class and identity structures [subjects and themes].
Train narratives move sets of characters in a circumstantially passive state [sitting standing]; and yet enough agency to move around, change carriages, exercise in a limited way.
Train stories can present social microcosms or capsules of meaning.
This paper seeks to understand how stories set on trains enable clear beginnings and endings and a unifying structure.
It proposes to do this by hypothesising/identifying tropes that appear in train stories and testing them for exclusive veracity
Train compartments contain passengers in a diorama moving through panoramas [setting]. Interior carriage provocations and baggage brought aboard can catalyse action [psychology and plot], lead to powerful human connections and revelations, and test existing class and identity structures [subjects and themes].
Train narratives move sets of characters in a circumstantially passive state [sitting standing]; and yet enough agency to move around, change carriages, exercise in a limited way.
Train stories can present social microcosms or capsules of meaning.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Diversity of Voices |
| Subtitle of host publication | the Scholar's Journal |
| Editors | Maurice A. Lee, Aaron Penn |
| Place of Publication | Sydney |
| Publisher | Lee and Penn Publishing |
| Pages | 93-109 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Edition | 16th |
| ISBN (Print) | 9798338353264 |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
| Event | 16th International Conference on the Short Story in English: Nan - National Institute of Education: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Duration: 20 Jun 2023 → 24 Jun 2023 http://https//:www.icssesg2023.com |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings 2023 ICSSE (International Conference the Short Story in English) |
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| Publisher | Lee and Penn Publishing |
Conference
| Conference | 16th International Conference on the Short Story in English |
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| Abbreviated title | ICSSE 2023 |
| Country/Territory | Singapore |
| City | Singapore |
| Period | 20/06/23 → 24/06/23 |
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Keywords
- narrative-structure
- train-story-tropes
- Short stories
- train-settings
- American short stories
- A0:R glargine
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The Short Story Train: a Concatrenation
Lynch, G., 2024, Diversity of Voices: the Scholar's Journal. Lee, M. A. & Penn, A. (eds.). 16th ed. Sydney: Lee and Penn Publishing, p. 93-109 17 p. (Proceedings 2023 ICSSE (International Conference the Short Story in English)).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review