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The Cambridge introduction to the American short story / Martin Scofield.

Scofield, Martin.
2006
PS374.S5 S36 2006 (Mapit)
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Title
The Cambridge introduction to the American short story / Martin Scofield.
Author
Scofield, Martin.
ISBN
9780521533812 (pbk.)
0521533813 (pbk.)
9780521826433
0521826438
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Language
English
Description
ix, 291 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number
PS374.S5 S36 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
813.0109
Summary
"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."--Publisher's description.
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includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cambridge introductions to literature.
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The short story as ironic myth: Washington Irving and William Austin
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville
New territories: Bret Harte and Mark Twain
Realism, the grotesque and impressionism: Hamlin Garland, Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane
Henry James
Rebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather
Growth, fragmentation, new aesthetics and new voices in the early twentieth century
O. Henry and Jack London
Sherwood Anderson
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor
Charles Chesnutt, Richard Wright, James Baldwin and the African American short story to 1965
Aspects of the American short story 1930-1980
Two traditions and the changing idea of the mainstream
The postmodern short story in America
Raymond Carver
The contemporary American short story.

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