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Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : 9786613627841 |
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The American short story has never been more popular - or more important - than it is today. With many lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary scholars in the United States, The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story offers readers a wealth of information and insight into the work of many of the finest short story writers in literary history. Part one of the book is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "The American Working-Class Short Story" or "Lesbian and Gay Short Stories". Part two contains pieces on individual writers and their work, including Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver and J.D. Salinger.
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Release | : 2001 |
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ISBN | : 9782311109870 |
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Author | : Blanche H. Gelfant |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 677 |
Release | : 2004-04-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0231504950 |
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Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene.
Author | : Alfred Bendixen |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2020-08-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1119685648 |
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Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Erin Fallon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2013-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135976228 |
Download A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Although the short story has existed in various forms for centuries, it has particularly flourished during the last hundred years. Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English includes alphabetically-arranged entries for 50 English-language short story writers from around the world. Most of these writers have been active since 1960, and they reflect a wide range of experiences and perspectives in their works. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes biography, a review of existing criticism, a lengthier analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The volume begins with a detailed introduction to the short story genre and concludes with an annotated bibliography of major works on short story theory.
Author | : Ernest Hemingway |
Publisher | : Dell |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1954-03-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0440378648 |
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Since its first printing in 1954, this outstanding anthology has been the book of choice by teachers, students, and lovers of short fiction. Surveying stories by British and American writers in the first half of the twentieth century, editors Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine selected stories that broke new ground and challenged the imagination with their style, subject matter, or tone: the unforgettable, enduring works that shaped the literature of our time. A truly exceptional collection of great stories, including: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane The Horse Dealer’s Daughter by D. H. Lawrence Barn Burning by William Faulkner The Sojourner by Carson McCullers The Open Window by Saki Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter The Boarding House by James Joyce Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway The Tree of Knowledge by Henry James Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty . . . and twenty-five more of the century’s best stories!
Author | : Erik Redling |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2022-01-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110587645 |
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The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.
Author | : Ray Benedict West |
Publisher | : Ayer Company Publishers |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Jean A. McConochie |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 1975-01 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780029712702 |
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