Author: Edward Joseph Harrington O'BrienPublisher:
ISBN: 9780403001347
Category : American short story
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Advance of the American Short Story
Author: Edward Joseph Harrington O'BrienPublisher:
ISBN: 9780403001347
Category : American short story
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Advance of the American Short Story
Author: Edward Joseph O'BrienPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
Author: Joyce Carol OatesPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195092622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
The Advance of the American Short Story
Author: Edward Joseph Harrington O'BrienPublisher:
ISBN: 9780848220297
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Granta Book of the American Short Story
Author: Richard FordPublisher:
ISBN: 9781847089786
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Granta Book of the American Short Story is a selection of the best works of American short fiction published in the last 50 years. -- Publisher details.
The American Short Story Handbook
Author: James NagelPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470655429
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories, from Benjamin Franklin’s “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” in 1747 to “The Joy Luck Club”. Includes a selection of writers chosen not only for their contributions of individual stories but for bodies of work that advanced the boundaries of short fiction, including Washington Irving, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tim O’Brien Addresses the ways in which American oral storytelling and other narrative traditions were integral to the formation and flourishing of the short story genre Written in accessible and engaging prose for students at all levels by a renowned literary scholar to illuminate an important genre that has received short shrift in scholarly literature of the last century Includes a glossary defining the most common terms used in literary history and in critical discussions of fiction, and a bibliography of works for further study
A Companion to the American Short Story
Author: Alfred BendixenPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119685648
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
American Short Story Cycle
Author: Jennifer J. SmithPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474423957
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Explores the contradictory position of Arabic being both the official language and marginalized in Israel
The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story
Author: Blanche H. GelfantPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231504950
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 677
Book Description
Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene.
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