Screen LibraryA companion to the American short story /
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Wiley-Blackwell,
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| Publisher Address: | Hoboken, NJ : |
| Publication Dates: |
2020. ©2010 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 519 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781119685647 1119685648 9781405115438 1405115432 |
| Index Number: | PS374 |
| CLC: | I712.074 |
| Call Number: | I712.074/C737-2 |
| Contents: |
The emergence and development of the American short story / Poe and the American short story / A guide to Melville's "Bartleby, the scrivener" / Towards history and beyond: Hawthorne and the American short story / Charles W. Chesnutt and the fictions of a "new" America / Mark Twain and the American comic short story / New England local-color literature: a colonial formation / Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the feminist tradition of the American short story / The short stories of Edith Wharton / The short stories of Stephen Crane / Kate Chopin / Frank Norris and Jack London / From "Water drops" to general strikes: nineteenth- and early twentieth-century short fiction and social change / The twentieth century: a period of innovation and continuity / The Hemingway story / William Faulkner's short stories / Katherine Anne Porter / Eudora Welty and the short story: theory and practice / The short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: structure, narrative technique, style / "The look of the world": Richard Wright on perspective / Small planets: the short fiction of Saul Bellow / John Updike / Raymond Carver in the twenty-first century / Multi-ethnic female identity and Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls / Landscape as haven in American women's short stories / The American ghost story / The detective story / The Asian American short story / The Jewish American story / The multiethnic American short story / "Should I stay or should I go?" American restlessness and the short-story cycle / |