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Record Nr.

UNINA9910876706003321

Titolo

A companion to the American short story / / edited by Alfred Bendixen and James Nagel

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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (535 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

BendixenAlfred

NagelJames

Disciplina

813/.0103

Soggetti

Short stories, American - History and criticism

American literature

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