Part one of term paper
The inclination to combine individual stories into larger wholes goes way back into oral tradition. In the literary world this kind of story linkage is known as a short story cycle, or sequence (various other names exist but these have caught on). It is not a collection of isolated stories but collections of stories with common themes, ima ...

Part two of term paper
... experience on various levels of the pattern of the whole significantly modifies his experience of each of its component parts” (p.47 Brevity Expanded). Robert M. Luscher, in his essay The Short Story Sequence: An Open Book, defines it thus: “a volume of stories, collected and organised by their author, in which the reader successively realises underlying patterns of coherence by continual modifications of his perceptions of pattern and theme” (p.148). Each story in the cycle is thus not a ...