American Short Story / editors, Michael Cocchiarale, Scott D. Emmert.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Critical insightsPublisher: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2015]Copyright date: 2015Edition: [First edition]Description: xxv, 248 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781619254251 (hardcover)
  • 1619254255 (hardcover)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS 374 .S5 A365 2015
Contents:
Critical contexts. The short story cycle in American fiction / Jennifer J. Smith ; The mystery of existence: the American short story in criticism and theory / Nicholas Birns ; Postcolonial literature post-Proulx : how a border-crossing short story writer reconditions the category / Hannah Jocelyn ; The metafiction of Tim O'Brien and Richard Russo / Stacy Esch -- Critical readings. Knowledge and power in Henry James' "In the Cage" / Linda Simon ; "The Blue Hotel" and Stephen Crane's American violence / Marc Dziak ; "A Study in Pain" : musical variations and Ernest Hemingway's "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" / Nicole J. Camastra ; Famine in the cabin : reading the hungry in Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's Children / McKinley E. Melton ; "The Country in the Woman" : "voice" in a "new" story by Zora Neale Hurston and the revival of formalist criticism / Robert C. Evans ; The "vanishing American" : remembering Weldon Kees' short fiction / Ola Madhour ; Girls in search of a viable identity in Eudora Welty's The golden apples / Imola Bulgozdi ; Identity and globalization in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Unaccustomed Earth" / Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis ; Sherman Alexie's defiant brand of humor in Blasphemy / Tara E. Friedman ; Reading short short stories, seriously / Randall Brown.
Summary: This collection of critical essays on the American short story examines the historical and literary contexts for the development of the genre and includes readings of specific authors and works-- Source other than Library of Congress.
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This collection of critical essays on the American short story examines the historical and literary contexts for the development of the genre and includes readings of specific authors and works-- Source other than Library of Congress.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-236) and index.

Critical contexts. The short story cycle in American fiction / Jennifer J. Smith ; The mystery of existence: the American short story in criticism and theory / Nicholas Birns ; Postcolonial literature post-Proulx : how a border-crossing short story writer reconditions the category / Hannah Jocelyn ; The metafiction of Tim O'Brien and Richard Russo / Stacy Esch -- Critical readings. Knowledge and power in Henry James' "In the Cage" / Linda Simon ; "The Blue Hotel" and Stephen Crane's American violence / Marc Dziak ; "A Study in Pain" : musical variations and Ernest Hemingway's "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" / Nicole J. Camastra ; Famine in the cabin : reading the hungry in Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's Children / McKinley E. Melton ; "The Country in the Woman" : "voice" in a "new" story by Zora Neale Hurston and the revival of formalist criticism / Robert C. Evans ; The "vanishing American" : remembering Weldon Kees' short fiction / Ola Madhour ; Girls in search of a viable identity in Eudora Welty's The golden apples / Imola Bulgozdi ; Identity and globalization in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Unaccustomed Earth" / Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis ; Sherman Alexie's defiant brand of humor in Blasphemy / Tara E. Friedman ; Reading short short stories, seriously / Randall Brown.

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