1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455048703321

Autore

Pacht Michelle

Titolo

The subversive storyteller [[electronic resource] ] : the short story cycle and the politics of identity in America / / by Michelle Pacht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne [England], : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009

ISBN

1-282-18983-2

9786612189838

1-4438-0385-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Disciplina

813.0109

Soggetti

Short stories, American - History and criticism

Cycles (Literature)

Identity (Psychology) in 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 (p. [141]-160) and index.

Nota di contenuto

section I. The making of a genre -- section II. Moving towards the modern -- section III. A fractured society : seeking (and finding) community.

Sommario/riassunto

The Subversive Storyteller: The Short Story Cycle and the Politics of Identity in America examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century American authors adapted and expanded the short story cycle to convey subversive or controversial ideas without alienating readers and threatening their ability to succeed within the literary marketplace. The twelve authors highlighted here come from a wide range of cultural, racial, and geographic backgrounds. Their texts represent different, more advanced...



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390089503316

Autore

Watson Thomas <1557?-1592.>

Titolo

The hekatompathia or Passionate centurie of loue [[electronic resource] ] : diuided into two parts: whereof, the first expresseth the authors sufferance in loue: the latter, his long farewell to loue and all his tyrannie. Composed by Thomas Watson Gentleman; and published at the request of certaine gentlemen his very frendes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe for Gabriell Cawood, dwellinge in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Holy Ghost, [1582]

Descrizione fisica

[120] p

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Mostly in verse.

The second word of the title is in Greek characters.

Publication date from STC.

Signatures: A⁴ [fleuron]⁴ ² A-N⁴.

The first leaf and the last leaf are blank.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113