The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story
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- Author: Martin Scofield, University of Kent, Canterbury
- Date Published: September 2006
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521533812
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This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe via Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to O'Connor and Carver. The major writers in the genre are covered in depth with a general view of their work and detailed discussion of a number of examples of individual stories. The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to this rich literary tradition. It will be invaluable to students and readers looking for critical approaches to the short story and wishing to deepen their understanding of how authors have approached and developed this fascinating and challenging genre. Further reading suggestions are included to explore the subject in more depth. This is an invaluable overview for all students and readers of American fiction.
Read more- Wide coverage of American short story writers from Twain to the present day
- Detailed discussion of major stories often studied in American literature courses
- Invaluable guide to further reading includes editions and key critical works
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'… a pleasant and informative read …' Revue Française d'Etudes Américaine
See more reviews'Adrian Hunter's Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English tackles this ambitious task with deliberate selectivity and yet with the declared aim of introducing his readers to a wide selection of short story writers writing in English from a variety of origins.' Archiv
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- Date Published: September 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521533812
- length: 302 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.495kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The short story as ironic myth: Washington Irving and William Austin
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. Edgar Allan Poe
5. Herman Melville
6. New territories: Bret Harte and Mark Twain
7. Realism, the grotesque and impressionism: Hamlin Garland, Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane
8. Henry James
9. Rebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman
10. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather and Edith Wharton
11. Growth, fragmentation, new aesthetics and new voices in the early twentieth century
12. O. Henry and Jack London
13. Sherwood Anderson
14. Ernest Hemingway
15. F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. William Faulkner
17. Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor
18. Charles Chesnutt, Richard Wright, James Baldwin and the African American short story to 1965
19. Aspects of the American short story 1930–80
20. Two traditions and the changing idea of the mainstream
22. The postmodern short story in America
22. Raymond Carver
23. Epilogue: the contemporary American short story
Guide to further reading.
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