• Media type: Book
  • Title: A history of the American short story : genres - developments - model interpretations
  • Contains: Part I: Introduction, survey, and theory
    1. Introduction: Features, objectives, and premises of "A history of the American short story" / Michael Basseler, Ansgar Nünning
    Part II: Early roots and formal beginning: From tale to short story
    4. Early American short narratives: The art of story-telling prior to Washington Irving / Oliver Scheiding, Martin Seidl
    Part III: From realism to modernism (1890s-1940s)
    10. Feminist voices around 1900: Kate Chopin's "Désirée's baby" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wall-paper" / Gabrielle Rippl
    Part IV: From modernism to postmodernism (1940s-1970s)
    16. Classics of the African American short story: Richard Wright's "The man who lived underground" and James Baldwin's "Going to meet the man" / Martin Lüthe
    Part V: Beyond postmodernism: Contemporary developments
    22. Minimalism and the return to realism in the 1970s and 1980s: Raymond Carver's "Why don't you dance?" and "Cathedral" / Julia Breitbach
    2. A brief survey of this "History of the American short story" / Michael Basseler
    3. Theories and typologies of the short story / Michael Basseler
    5. Stories of the puritan legacy: Myth and allegory in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and "Rappaccinni's daughter" / Werner Reinhart
    6. Tales of detection and deterioration: Edgar Allan Poe's "The murders in the rue morgue" and "The fall of the house of Usher" / Erik Redling
    7. Between romance and realism: 'Twice-told' urban gothic in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the scrivener" and the related mid-19th-century narratives of modern city life / Ingo Berensmeyer, Martin Spies
    8. The rise of local-color writing in the American west: Bret Harte's "The outcasts of Poker Flat" and Mark Twain's "The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County" / Holger Kersten
    9. Anti-war stories, horror stories, and tall tales: Ambrose Bierce's "An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge" and "Oil of dog" / Robert Vogt
    11. The beginnings of the modernist short story of consciousness: Henry James's "The beast in the jungle" / Simon Cooke
    12. Anti-plot stories and stories of initiation: Sherwood Anderson's "Mother" and "I want to know why" / Michael Basseler, Ansgar Nünning
    13. Naturalistic short stories: Stephen Crane's "The open boat" and John Steinbeck's "The chrysanthemums" / Oliver Scheiding
    14. Short stories of the 1920s and 1930s between tradition and innovation: F. Scott Fitzgerald's "May day" and Ernest Hemingway's "The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Kurt Müller
    15. Modernist short stories between the regional and the universal: William Faulkner's "Dry september" and Eudora Welty's "Petrified man" / Thomas Claviez
    17. New directions in the post-war American short story: J. D. Salinger's Gladwaller-trilogy and Bernard Malamud's "The mourners" / Susanne Rohr
    18. Middle-class life in the (realist) short story: John Cheever's "The enormous radio" and John Updike's "The music school" / Eva-Sabine Zehelein
    19. Stories of female initiation: Flannery O'Connor's "Good country people" and Joyce Carol Oates's "How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again" / Ina Bergmann
    20. Experimental short fictions of the 1960s: Thomas Pynchon's "Entropy" and Robert Coover's "The babysitter" / René Dietrich, Mirjam Horn
    21. Postmodernist metafiction: John Barth's "Lost in the funhouse" and Donald Barthelme's "The glass mountain" and "The balloon" / Jochen Achilles
    23. Overcoming borders in native American and Canadian first nations short stories: Simon Ortiz' "Howbah Indians" and Thomas King's "Borders" / Wolfgang Hochbruck
    24. New directions in the American short story of the 1990s: (Multi-)Ethnic identity in Sandra Cisnero's "Never marry a Mexican" and Bharati Mukherjee's "The middleman" / Antje Kley
    25. New directions in the American short story after 9/11: Don DeLillo's "Baader-Meinhof" and Nicole Krauss's "Future emergencies" / Astrid Böger
  • Contributor: Basseler, Michael [HerausgeberIn]; Nünning, Ansgar [HerausgeberIn]
  • imprint: Trier: WVT, Wiss. Verl. Trier, c 2011
  • Published in: WVT-Handbücher zum literaturwissenschaftlichen Studium ; 14
  • Extent: X, 433 S.
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 3868213023; 9783868213027
  • RVK notation: HR 1820 : Erzählung; Novelle; Short Story
  • Keywords: USA > Kurzgeschichte > Geschichte
    USA > Kurzgeschichte > Geschichte
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