• Media type: Book
  • Title: American short story
  • Contains: 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 EschCritical 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.
  • Contributor: Cocchiarale, Michael [Hrsg.]; Emmert, Scott [Other]
  • imprint: Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press Grey House Publishing, [2015]
  • Published in: Critical insights
  • Issue: [First edition], first printing
  • Extent: XXV, 248 S.; 24 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 1619254255; 9781619254251
  • RVK notation: HR 1820 : Erzählung; Novelle; Short Story
  • Keywords: USA > Kurzgeschichte
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index
  • Description: 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--

    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

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