| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 221 pages) |
| Contents |
Henry James's incipient poetics of the short story sequence : The finer grain (1910) / Richard A. Hocks. - Toomer's Cane as narrative sequence / Linda Wagner-Martin. - Hemingway's In our time : the biography of a book / Michael Reynolds. - Wright writing reading : narrative strategies in Uncle Tom's children / John Lowe. - The African-American voice in Faulkner's Go down, Moses / John Carlos Rowe. - Meditations on nonpresence : re-visioning the short story in Eudora Welty's The wide net / Susan V. Donaldson. - Nine stories : J.D. Salinger's linked mysteries / Ruth Prigozy. - Cheever's Shady Hill : a suburban sequence / Scott Donaldson. - John Updike's Olinger stories : new light among the shadows / Robert M. Luscher. - Louise Erdrich's Love medicine : narrative communities and the short story sequence / Hertha D. Wong. - From Anderson's Winesburg to Carver's Cathedral : the short story sequence and the semblance of community / J. Gerald Kennedy |
| Notes |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
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Originally published in 1995, this book gathers together eleven full-length essays on important American short story sequences of the twentieth century. The introduction by J. Gerald Kennedy elucidates problems of defining the genre, cites notable instances of the form (such as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio), and explores the implications of its modern emergence and popularity. Subsequent essays discuss illustrative works by such figures as Henry James, Jean Toomer, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, J. D. Salinger, John Cheever, John Updike, Louise Erdrich, and Raymond Carver. While examining distinctive thematic concerns, each essay also considers implications of form and arrangement in the construction of composite fictions that often produce the illusion of a fictive community |
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Cycles (Literature)
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Fiction -- Technique.
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Literary form.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Community life in literature.
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Short stories, American -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kennedy, J. Gerald, editor
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| ISBN |
9780511519338 |
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0511519338 |
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9780521430104 |
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0521430100 |
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9780521172622 |
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0521172624 |
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