A companion to the American short story [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Alfred Bendixen and James Nagel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910140617003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• ISBN: 1-4051-9717-X; 1-78268-571-5; 1-282-54825-5; 9786612548253; 1-4443-1991-4; 1-4443-1992-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (535 p.)
• Collana: Blackwell companions to literature and culture
• Altri autori (Persone): BendixenAlfred; NagelJames
• Disciplina: 813.0103; 813.0109; 813/.0103
• Soggetti: Short stories, American - History and criticism; American literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Part I: The Nineteenth Century; 1: The Emergence and Development of the American Short Story; 2: Poe and the American Short Story; 3: A Guide to Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener"; 4: Towards History and Beyond: Hawthorne and the American Short Story; 5: Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of a "New" America; 6: Mark Twain and the American Comic Short Story; 7: New England Local-Color Literature: A Colonial Formation; 8: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Feminist Tradition of the American Short Story; 9: The Short Stories of Edith WhartonPart II: The Transition into the New Century; 10: The Short Stories of Stephen Crane; 11: Kate Chopin; 12: Frank Norris and Jack London; 13: From "Water Drops" to General ; Strikes: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Short Fiction and Social Change; Part III: The Twentieth Century; 14: The Twentieth Century: A Period of Innovation and Continuity; 15: The Hemingway Story; 16: William Faulkner's Short Stories; 17: Katherine Anne Porter; 18: Eudora Welty and the Short Story: Theory and Practice; 19: The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Structure, Narrative Technique, Style20: "The Look of the World": Richard Wright on Perspective; 21: Small Planets: The Short Fiction of Saul Bellow; 22: John Updike; 23: Raymond Carver in the Twenty-First Century; 24: Multi-Ethnic Female Identity and Denise Chávez's The Last of the Menu Girls; Part IV: Expansive Considerations; 25: Landscape as Haven in American Women's Short Stories; 26: The American Ghost Story; 27: The Detective Story; 28: The Asian American Short Story; 29: The Jewish American Story; 30: The Multiethnic American Short Story; 31: "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" American Restlessness and the Short-Story CycleIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: A Companion to the American Short Story traces the development of this versatile literary genre over the past 200 years.Sets the short story in context, paying attention to the interaction of cultural forces and aesthetic principlesContributes to the ongoing redefinition of the American canon, with close attention to the achievements of women writers as well as such important genres as the ghost story and detective fictionEmbraces diverse traditions including African-American, Jewish-American, Latino, Native-American, and regional short story writingIncludes a sectio