The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story
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- Michael J. Collins, King's College London
- Gavin Jones, Stanford University
- Date Published: May 2023
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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. The chapters offer authoritative introductions and reinterpretations of a literary form that has re-emerged as a major force in the twenty-first-century public sphere dominated by the Internet.
Read more- Offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the history of the short story, looking at key figures and works (as well as neglected examples) from across 400 years of American literature
- Provides new avenues and routes to consideration of the short story as a major literary form in America, and accounts for its recent reemergence in the public sphere in the 21st century
- Presents new, original research by leading scholars in the field of American Literature on the short story
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‘… reminds the reader why a century of short story writing has shaped American literature from Edgar Allen Poe to Teju Cole. … Highly recommended.’ K. Gale, Choice
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- Date Published: May 2023
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781009292825
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Part I. Contexts:
1. Transatlantic print culture and the emergence of short narratives Oliver Scheiding
2. The short story and the early magazine Jared Gardner
3. The short story fad: gender, pleasure, and commodity culture in late-nineteenth century magazines Brad Evans
4. The best of the best: anthologies, prizes, and the short story canon Alexander Manshel
5. The story of a semester: short fiction and the program era Loren Glass
6. The short story in the age of the internet Simone Murray
Part II. Histories:
7. The war story Cody Marrs
8. Narratives from below: working class short fiction Owen Clayton
9. The short story and the popular imagination: pulp and crime Will Norman
10. Love what you do: neoliberalism, emotional labor, and the short story as a service Lee Konstantinou
11. Local color to multiculturalism: minority writers in the short story and ethnographic markets Long Le-Khac
Part III. People and Places:
12. Native American short stories Hertha D. Sweet Wong
13. African American short fiction: from reform to renaissance Amina Gautier
14. Little postage stamps: the short story, the American south, and the world Coleman Hutchison
15. Regional stories and the environmental imagination Sylvan Goldberg
16. Concrete illuminations: the short story and/as urban revolution Myka Tucker-Abramson
Part IV. Theories:
17. Short fiction, language learning, and innocent comedy Gabriella Safran
18. The technology of the short story: from sci fi to cli fi Shelley Streeby
19. Homelessness: the short story and other media Gavin Jones
20. The human and the animal: toward posthumanist short fiction Michael Lundblad
21. The end of the story: grammar, gender, and time in the contemporary short story Lola Boorman
22. The affordances of mere length: computational approaches to short story analysis Mark Algee-Hewitt, Anna Mukamal and J. D. Porter.
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