TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cocchiarale,Michael
AU  - Emmert,Scott
TI  - American Short Story
T2  - Critical insights
SN  - 9781619254251 (hardcover)
AV  - PS 374 .S5 A365 2015
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Ipswich, Massachusetts, Amenia, NY
PB  - Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc., Grey House Publishing
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Edition statement supplied by publisher; 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
N2  - 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--
ER  -