The Contemporary American Short Story Cycle
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The Contemporary American Short Story Cycle
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Author : James Nagel
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2004-04-01
The Contemporary American Short Story Cycle written by James Nagel and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
American Short Story Cycle
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Author : Jennifer J. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-22
American Short Story Cycle written by Jennifer J. Smith and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
American Short Story Cycle
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Author : Jennifer J. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-26
American Short Story Cycle written by Jennifer J. Smith and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Explores the contradictory position of Arabic being both the official language and marginalized in Israel
The American Short Story Handbook
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Author : James Nagel
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2015-03-02
The American Short Story Handbook written by James Nagel and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
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
The Composite Novel
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Author : Maggie Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1995
The Composite Novel written by Maggie Dunn and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.
Critics have been aware for years that such literary works as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses and James Joyce's Dubliners do not fit comfortably into established genres. By proposing the name composite novel and a supportive, comprehensive theory of genre for these works, Maggie Dunn and Ann Morris break new critical ground. In tracing the development of this literary genre in the 19th and 20th centuries throughout the world, the authors offer not only a new way to understand these classics, but also a useful approach to the best contemporary fiction such as N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain and Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate.
The Short Story Cycle
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Author : Susan Mann
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1989
The Short Story Cycle written by Susan Mann and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Literary Criticism categories.
This guide is an excellent beginning for the study of a little-recognized genre and will be needed by all academic libraries. Choice During the 1970s many distinguished writers began experimenting with the short story cycle, a literary form that achieved prominence in the early decades of the century through such works as James Joyce's Dubliners and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. Despite the growing interest of both writers and readers, no theoretical work has been done on this genre in the past ten years. The Short Story Cycle provides a wide-ranging survey of the subject, offering detailed analyses of nine classic short story cycles and an annotated listing of over 120 others, many by contemporary authors. In addition, the introduction includes a history of the genre and its related forms as well as a discussion of conventions associated with the cycle. Short story cycles by Joyce, Anderson, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Welty, O'Connor, and Updike are described in individual chapters. These works illustrate the genre's diversity and vitality, ranging from cycles that are explicitly related through chronology, plot, and character to collections that reveal subtler, implicit unities. The author looks at the ways different writers use repeated or developed characters, themes, myth, imagery, setting, point of view, and plot or chronology to create the sense of a larger whole. Chapter bibliographies supply information on relevant critical writings as well as biographical and autobiographical materials. The volume concludes with an annotated listing of important twentieth-century short-story cycles by American, British, European, Canadian, Australian, Polish, Soviet, and Latin American writers.
Representative Short Story Cycles Of The Twentieth Century
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Author : Forrest L. Ingram
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 1971
Representative Short Story Cycles Of The Twentieth Century written by Forrest L. Ingram and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Sex Race And Family In Contemporary American Short Stories
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Author : M. Bostrom
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-08-06
Sex Race And Family In Contemporary American Short Stories written by M. Bostrom and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book reveals a female sexual economy in the marketplace of contemporary short fiction which locates a struggle for sexual power between mothers and daughters within a larger struggle to pursue that object of the American dream: whiteness.
Constructing Coherence In The British Short Story Cycle
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Author : Patrick Gill
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-05-11
Constructing Coherence In The British Short Story Cycle written by Patrick Gill and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
A Companion To The American Short Story
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Author : Alfred Bendixen
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2020-08-24
A Companion To The American Short Story written by Alfred Bendixen and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-24 with Literary Criticism categories.