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Author: Sara Constantakis Publisher: Short Stories for Students ISBN: 9781414421865 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 0
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Each bi-annual volume presents vital information on approximately 20 of the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels.
Author: Sara Constantakis Publisher: Short Stories for Students ISBN: 9781414421865 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Each bi-annual volume presents vital information on approximately 20 of the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels.
Author: Kathleen Wilson Publisher: Short Stories for Students ISBN: 9780787616908 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 0
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This volume presents information on 20 short stories. It contains concise synopses of the plots, characters and themes along with a brief author biography, a discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance and excerpted criticism.
Author: Piri Thomas Publisher: Graymalkin Media ISBN: 1631680714 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 94
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In these eight stories Piri Thomas takes us with him into El Barrio—Puerto Rico in New York City—and recreates the scenes he knows so well from his own childhood. He leads us through streets teaming with life, up crumbling front stoops, down dark hallways, into crowded rooms, and into the hearts and minds of his people. He takes us into the ring for a hard-fought boxing match and out of the city on a Boy Scout outing. He sits us in the barber’s chair and right under the burning scalp of a kid getting his hair straightened. He puts us into a boy’s mind for a wild fantasy trip, and into the heart of a sixteen-year-old trying to impress a pretty girl. He draws vivid stories from his part experiences and makes us feel what it means to be poor and proud and generous; to be streetwise and full of bravado but frightened, too; to struggle to go straight; to be ashamed of being ashamed; to dream. Piri Thomas, who reached thousands of readers with his bestselling autobiography, Down These Mean Streets, now gives young readers a vivid slice of the life in El Barrio—a place where people face their problems with energy, ingenuity, and love. Speaking in the voice of the streets and from his heart, he captures their spirit, their laughter, and their hope.
Author: Richard Fusco Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 9780271010816 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 248
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Maupassant and the American Short Story isolates and develops more fully than any previous study the impact of Maupassant's work on the writing of Ambrose Bierce, O. Henry, Kate Chopin, and Henry James. It introduces a new perspective to assess their canons, reviving the importance of many often-ignored stories and, in the cases of Maupassant and O. Henry, reasserting the necessity of studying such writers to understand the history of the genre. An important moment in the history of the short story occurred with the American misreading of Maupassant's use of story structure. Before the turn of the century, Jonathan Sturges and others published mostly surprise-inversion tales in translation. Especially inspiring Bierce and O. Henry, this skewed sample implied to American writers that Maupassant constructed such plots exclusively. Only a few writers, such as James and Chopin, both of whom read Maupassant in French, appreciated his deft handling of form more fully. Their vision and the impact of Maupassant upon their fiction was largely ignored by later generations of writers who preferred to associate Maupassant and O. Henry with the "trick ending" story. This book details the origins and consequences of this misperception. The book further contributes to the study of the short-story genre. Through an adaptation of Aristotelian concepts, Richard Fusco proposes an original approach to short-story structure, defining and developing seven categories of textual formulas: linear, ironic coda, surprise-inversion, loop, descending helical, contrast, and sinusoidal. As a practitioner of all these forms, Maupassant established his mastery of the genre. By studying his use of form, the book asserts a major reason for his pivotal importance in the historical development of the short story.
Author: Nadine Gordimer Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408832631 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 273
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In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing civil war in Mozambique; a black activist's deserted wife longing for better times; a rich safari party indulging themselves while lionesses circle their lodge. Jump is a vivid, disturbing and rewarding portrait of life in South Africa under apartheid.
Author: Stephen Crane Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061915041 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 19
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Though best known for The Red Badge of Courage, his classic novel of men at war, in his tragically brief life and career Stephen Crane produced a wealth of stories—among them "The Monster," "The Upturned Face," "The Open Boat," and the title story—that stand among the most acclaimed and enduring in the history of American fiction. This superb volume collects stories of unique power and variety in which impressionistic, hallucinatory, and realistic situations alike are brilliantly conveyed through the cold, sometimes brutal irony of Crane's narrative voice.
Author: Gene H. Bell-Villada Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807833517 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 361
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential writers of our time, with a unique literary creativity rooted in the history of his native Colombia. This is the first book of criticism to consider in detail the totality of Garcia Marquez's oeuvre.
Author: Piri Thomas Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 222
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Wounded and arrested while committing an armed robbery, Thomas begins his long seven years of incarceration first in the prison ward at Bellevue and then in Sing Sing and Great Meadows (Comstock). Thomas' great heart and tough street philosophy face off lyrically with the brutality of guards, the sterility of steel and cement, the perversity fostered on both sides of the bars by incarceration. Seven Long Times is the critically-acclaimed sequel to Thomas' classic of urban and prison literature, Down These Mean Streets.
Author: Sara Constantakis
Author: Sara Constantakis
Author: Kathleen Wilson
Author: Piri Thomas
Author: Richard Fusco
Author: Nadine Gordimer
Author: Stephen Crane
Author: Piri Thomas
Author: Gene H. Bell-Villada
Author: Piri Thomas
Author: Piri Thomas