Screen LibraryThe Cambridge companion to the American short story /
"This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its impor...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge companions to literature
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| Summary: |
"This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance in comparison with the novel, this Companion seeks to understand what the short story does -- how it moves through national space, how it is always related to other genres and media, and how its inherent mobility responds to the literary marketplace and resonates with key critical themes in contemporary literary studies. Essays offer authoritative introductions and reinterpretations of a literary form that has reemerged as a major force in the twenty-first century public sphere dominated by the internet"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxiii, 380 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781009292849 1009292846 9781009292818 1009292811 |
| Index Number: | PS374 |
| CLC: | I712.074 |
| Call Number: | I712.074/C178-7 |
| Contents: |
Transatlantic print culture and the emergence of short narratives / The short story and the early magazine / The short story fad: gender, pleasure, and commodity culture in late nineteenth-century magazines / The best of the best: anthologies, prizes, and the short story canon / The story of a semester: short fiction and the program era / The short story in the age of the internet / The war story / Narratives from below: working-class short fiction / The short story and the popular imagination: pulp and crime / Love what you do: neoliberalism, emotional labor, and the short story as a service / Local color to multiculturalism: minority writers in the short story and ethnographic markets / Native American short stories / African American short stories: from reform to renaissance / Little postage stamps: the short story, the American south, and the world / Regional stories and the environmental imagination / Sylvan Goldberg -- Concrete illuminations: the short story and/as urban revolution / Short fiction, language learning, and innocent comedy / The technology of the short story / Homelessness: the short story and other media / The human and the animal: toward posthumanist short fiction / The end of the story: grammar, gender, and time in the contemporary short story / The affordances of mere length: computational approaches to short story analysis / |