Screen LibraryConnections and influence in the Russian and American short story /
"Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story illuminates the importance of the interconnectedness between Russian and American short stories. The reciprocal influence between the two was integral to the development of the short story in each country and of the modern genre...
Saved in:
| Group Author: | ; |
|---|---|
| Published: |
Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
|
| Publisher Address: | Lanham, Maryland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | |
| Summary: |
"Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story illuminates the importance of the interconnectedness between Russian and American short stories. The reciprocal influence between the two was integral to the development of the short story in each country and of the modern genre"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 299 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781793629883 1793629889 |
| Index Number: | PS159 |
| CLC: |
I512.074 I712.074 |
| Call Number: | I712.074/C752 |
| Contents: |
Calls from beyond and within : a nonhuman reading of the short stories of Nikolai Gogol and Washington Irving / Empathy and human feeling in the short stories of O. Henry and Anton Chekhov / From Poe to James via Dostoevsky : cognizing doppelgangers in American and Russian short fiction / "Smile and scream" in The Little Review : Russian short fiction and Transatlantic avant-garde / The resonance of Dostoevsky's "Bobok" in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury / Black in the USSR : Langston Hughes, Ivan Turgenev, and the radical potential of the short story / Composing thoughts: Reading Daniil Kharms's Workin the Light of Short Story Collection Theory / Outsiders and others: revisiting Richard Wright's "Underground Man" / "The strange and the commonplace in one" : spirituality, mystery, and the personal quest in the short fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Anton Chekhov / Gorky's orphans : the unraveling of socialist humanism in Russian and African American tramp stories / Vladimir Nabokov's American short story surrounded by the image of Russia : "The Vane Sisters" in Nabokov's Quartet interacting with Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" Existential quests in the short story : Gogol's "The Overcoat", Bellow's "Looking for Mr. Green," and Cheever's "The Swimmer" / Divine beings in short stories by Nabokov, Garcia Marquez, and Le Guin: a secular reading / Two ladies, two dogs: on moral luck and determinism in Chekhov and Oates / Food, influence, the short story, Anton Chekhov, and Raymond Carver / Heterosexual fictions: Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies / Tolstoy's influence in Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge and Olive, again / Tiny haunted empires: domestic fabulism in the home in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's "Quadraturin" and Kelly Link's "Stone Animals" / |