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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255444403321

Autore

Smith Jennifer J (Jennifer Joan)

Titolo

The American short story cycle / / Jennifer J. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-4744-2395-7

1-4744-4494-6

1-4744-2394-9

1-4744-2978-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Classificazione

HU 1820

Disciplina

813.0109

Soggetti

Short stories, American - History and criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-190) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Forming Provisional Identities -- Chapter 1 Locating the Short Story Cycle -- Chapter 2 The Persistence of Place -- Chapter 3 Writing Time in Metaphors -- Chapter 4 Tracing New Genealogies -- Chapter 5 Resisting Identity -- Chapter 6 Atomic Genre -- Coda Novellas-in-Flash and Flash Cycles -- Selected American Short Story Cycles -- Works Cited -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This work spans two centuries to tell the history of a genre that includes both major and marginal authors, from Washington Irving through William Faulkner to Jhumpa Lahiri.