Representative Short Story Cycles Of The Twentieth Century
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Representative Short Story Cycles of the Twentieth Century
Author | : Forrest L. Ingram |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2012-05-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110888546 |
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The United Stories of America
Author | : Rolf Lundén |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2022-06-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004488588 |
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This book discusses the American short story composite, or short story cycle, a neglected form of writing consisting of autonomous stories interlocking into a whole. The critical work done on this genre has so far focused on the closural strategies of the composites, on how unity is accomplished in these texts. This study takes into consideration, to a greater degree than earlier criticism, the short story composite as an open work, emphasizing the tension between the independent stories and the unified work, between the discontinuity and fragmentation, on the one hand, and the totalizing strategies, on the other. The discussion of the genre is illustrated with references to numerous American short story composites.
The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth Century American Short Story
Author | : Blanche H. Gelfant |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 677 |
Release | : 2004-04-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780231504959 |
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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.
Sixteen Modern American Authors
Author | : Jackson R. Bryer |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 082231018X |
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Praise for the earlier edition: "Students of modern American literature have for some years turned to Fifteen Modern American Authors (1969) as an indispensable guide to significant scholarship and criticism about twentieth-century American writers. In its new form--Sixteenth Modern American Authors--it will continue to be indispensable. If it is not a desk-book for all Americanists, it is a book to be kept in the forefront of the bibliographical compartment of their brains."--American Studies
The Contemporary American Short Story Cycle
Author | : James Nagel |
Publsiher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2004-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0807129615 |
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James Nagel offers the first systematic history and definition of the short-story cycle as exemplified in contemporary American fiction, bringing attention to the format's wide appeal among various ethnic groups. He examines in detail eight recent manifestations of the genre, all praised by critics while uniformly misidentified as novels. Nagel proposes that the short-story cycle, with its concentric as opposed to linear plot development possibilities, lends itself particularly well to exploring themes of ethnic assimilation, which mirror some of the major issues facing American society today.
Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories
Author | : Lucy Evans |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2019-10-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781789623451 |
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This book explores representations of community in Anglophone Caribbean short story collections and cycles of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
American Short Story Cycle
Author | : Jennifer J. Smith |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2017-11-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781474423946 |
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The American Short Story Cycle shows the roots of modernism and postmodernism winds through the short story cycle. Reviewers ranging from the The New York Times to Amazon do not know what to call books like Jennifer Egan?s A Visit from the Goon Squad or Jhumpa Lahiri?s Unaccustomed Earth. Why do such popular and acclaimed books spark debates about what they are and how they should be read? The American Short Story Cycle provides a history of this genre that has been hiding in plain sight. Dating back to the early nineteenth century and proliferating to the present, the short story cycle has been wildly popular both in the US and around the world. Stories in a cycle, which can be read singly but mean more together, reflect the individualism and pluralism that shape modern experience. This book gives a name and theory to the genre that has fostered the aesthetics of fragmentation and recurrence that characterize fiction today.
Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle
Author | : Patrick Gill,Florian Kläger |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2018-05-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781351382137 |
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The first major collection of essays on the contemporary British short story cycle, this volume offers in-depth explorations of the genre by comparing its strategies for creating coherence with those of the novel and the short story collection, inquiring after the ties that bind individual short stories into a cycle. A section on theory approaches the form from the point of view of genre theory, cognitive literary studies, and book studies. It is followed by investigations of hitherto neglected aspects of the generic tradition of the British short story cycle and how they relate to the contemporary outlook of the form. Readings of individual contemporary cycles, illustrating the form’s multifaceted uses from the presentation of sexual identities to politics and trauma, make up the third and most substantial part of the volume, placing its focus squarely on the past decades. Unique in its combination of a focus on the literary traditions, politics and markets of the UK with a thorough examination of the genre’s manifold formal and thematic potentials, the volume explores what is at the heart of the short story cycle as a literary form: the constant negotiation between unity and separateness, collective and individual, of coherence and autonomy.