LEADER 04284nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910876706003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4051-9717-X 010 $a1-78268-571-5 010 $a1-282-54825-5 010 $a9786612548253 010 $a1-4443-1991-4 010 $a1-4443-1992-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000009638 035 $a(EBL)487727 035 $a(OCoLC)646425254 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000358122 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11278835 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358122 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10359884 035 $a(PQKB)11016126 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC487727 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000009638 100 $a20090831d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to the American short story /$fedited by Alfred Bendixen and James Nagel 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMalden $cWiley-Blackwell$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (535 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to literature and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4051-1543-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA 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 327 $a9: 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 327 $a19: 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 Cha?vez'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 327 $a31: "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" American Restlessness and the Short-Story CycleIndex 330 $aA Companion to the American Short Story traces the development of this versatile literary genre over the past 200 years.Sets the short story in context, paying attention to the interaction of cultural forces and aesthetic principlesContributes to the ongoing redefinition of the American canon, with close attention to the achievements of women writers as well as such important genres as the ghost story and detective fictionEmbraces diverse traditions including African-American, Jewish-American, Latino, Native-American, and regional short story writingIncludes a sectio 410 0$aBlackwell companions to literature and culture. 606 $aShort stories, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature 615 0$aShort stories, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature. 676 $a813/.0103 701 $aBendixen$b Alfred$0970787 701 $aNagel$b James$01647739 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910876706003321 996 $aA companion to the American short story$94187365 997 $aUNINA