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Author | : J. Gerald Kennedy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 1995-01-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521430100 |
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Originally published in 1995, this book gathers together eleven full-length essays on important American short story sequences of the twentieth century. The introduction by J. Gerald Kennedy elucidates problems of defining the genre, cites notable instances of the form (such as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio), and explores the implications of its modern emergence and popularity. Subsequent essays discuss illustrative works by such figures as Henry James, Jean Toomer, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, J. D. Salinger, John Cheever, John Updike, Louise Erdrich, and Raymond Carver. While examining distinctive thematic concerns, each essay also considers implications of form and arrangement in the construction of composite fictions that often produce the illusion of a fictive community.
Author | : James Nagel |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2004-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780807129616 |
Download The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
James Nagel offers the first systematic history and definition of the short-story cycle as exemplified in contemporary American fiction, bringing attention to the format's wide appeal among various ethnic groups. He examines in detail eight recent manifestations of the genre, all praised by critics while uniformly misidentified as novels. Nagel proposes that the short-story cycle, with its concentric as opposed to linear plot development possibilities, lends itself particularly well to exploring themes of ethnic assimilation, which mirror some of the major issues facing American society today.
Author | : Alfred Bendixen |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2020-08-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1119685648 |
Download A Companion to the American Short Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Julie Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134822227 |
Download Ethnicity and the American Short Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How do different ethnic groups approach the short story form? Do different groups develop culture-related themes? Do oral traditions within a particular culture shape the way in which written stories are told? Why does "the community" loom so large in ethnic stories? How do such traditional forms as African American slave narratives or the Chinese talk-story shape the modern short story? Which writers of color should be added to the canon? Why have some minority writers been ignored for such a long time? How does a person of color write for white publishers, editors, and readers? Each essay in this collection of original studies addresses these questions and other related concerns. It is common knowledge that most scholarly work on the short story has been on white writers: This collection is the first work to specifically focus on short story practice by ethnic minorities in America, ranging from African Americans to Native Americans, Chinese Americans to Hispanic Americans. The number of women writers discussed will be of particular interest to women studies and genre studies researchers, and the collections will be of vital interest to scholars working in American literature, narrative theory, and multicultural studies.
Author | : Kasia Boddy |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2010-08-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748631631 |
Download American Short Story since 1950 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The American Short Story since 1950 offers a reappraisal and contextualisation of a critically underrated genre during a particularly rich period in its history. It offers new readings of important stories by key writers including Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, Lorrie Moore and Grace Paley. These readings are related throughout to the various contexts in which stories are written and published, including creative writing schools, story-writing handbooks, mass market and 'little' magazines.
Author | : Rolf Lundén |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2022-06-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004488588 |
Download The United Stories of America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book discusses the American short story composite, or short story cycle, a neglected form of writing consisting of autonomous stories interlocking into a whole. The critical work done on this genre has so far focused on the closural strategies of the composites, on how unity is accomplished in these texts. This study takes into consideration, to a greater degree than earlier criticism, the short story composite as an open work, emphasizing the tension between the independent stories and the unified work, between the discontinuity and fragmentation, on the one hand, and the totalizing strategies, on the other. The discussion of the genre is illustrated with references to numerous American short story composites.
Author | : Erik Redling |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2022-01-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110587645 |
Download Handbook of the American Short Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Blanche H. Gelfant |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 677 |
Release | : 2004-04-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0231504950 |
Download The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Lucy Evans |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-10-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1789623456 |
Download Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores representations of community in Anglophone Caribbean short story collections and cycles of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
Author | : Abby H. P. Werlock |
Publisher | : Infobase Learning |
Total Pages | : 3225 |
Release | : 2015-04-22 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : 1438140754 |
Download Encyclopedia of the American Short Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Two-volume set that presents an introduction to American short fiction from the 19th century to the present.