LEADER 04041nam 22006612 450 001 9910809015703321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-16004-9 010 $a1-107-77916-2 010 $a1-281-04015-0 010 $a9786611040154 010 $a0-511-60725-3 010 $a0-511-33450-8 010 $a0-511-33384-6 010 $a0-511-33316-1 010 $a0-511-56638-7 010 $a0-511-33508-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000478667 035 $a(EBL)307392 035 $a(OCoLC)212433179 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000117054 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11139302 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000117054 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10047949 035 $a(PQKB)11040422 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511607257 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC307392 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL307392 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10193827 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL104015 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000478667 100 $a20090910d2006|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Cambridge introduction to the American short story /$fMartin Scofield$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge introductions to literature 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-53381-3 311 $a0-521-82643-8 320 $aincludes bibliographical references (p. 256-280) and index. 327 $tThe short story as ironic myth: Washington Irving and William Austin --$tNathaniel Hawthorne --$tEdgar Allan Poe --$tHerman Melville --$tNew territories: Bret Harte and Mark Twain --$tRealism, the grotesque and impressionism: Hamlin Garland, Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane --$tHenry James --$tRebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman --$tCharlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather --$tGrowth, fragmentation, new aesthetics and new voices in the early twentieth century --$tO. Henry and Jack London --$tSherwood Anderson --$tErnest Hemingway --$tF. Scott Fitzgerald --$tWilliam Faulkner --$tKatherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor --$tCharles Chesnutt, Richard Wright, James Baldwin and the African American short story to 1965 --$tAspects of the American short story 1930-1980 --$tTwo traditions and the changing idea of the mainstream --$tThe postmodern short story in America --$tRaymond Carver --$tThe contemporary American short story. 330 $aThis wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe via Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to O'Connor and Carver. The major writers in the genre are covered in depth with a general view of their work and detailed discussion of a number of examples of individual stories. The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to this rich literary tradition. It will be invaluable to students and readers looking for critical approaches to the short story and wishing to deepen their understanding of how authors have approached and developed this fascinating and challenging genre. Further reading suggestions are included to explore the subject in more depth. This is an invaluable overview for all students and readers of American fiction. 410 0$aCambridge introductions to literature. 606 $aShort stories, American$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aShort stories, American$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813.0109 700 $aScofield$b Martin$0599938 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809015703321 996 $aCambridge introduction to the American short story$91021752 997 $aUNINA