| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 248 pages) |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| 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 |
| Notes |
Edition statement supplied by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Short stories, American -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Short stories, American
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Kurzgeschichte
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American Literature.
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cocchiarale, Michael, 1966- editor.
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Emmert, Scott, 1962- editor.
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| LC no. |
2015935396 |
| ISBN |
9781619254268 |
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1619254263 |
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