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The subversive storyteller : the short story cycle and the politics of identity in America / by Michelle Pacht.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pacht, Michelle.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American--History and criticism.
- Short stories, American.
- Cycles (Literature).
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Genre:
- Libros electrónicos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (173 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne [England] : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Subversive Storyteller: The Short Story Cycle and the Politics of Identity in America examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century American authors adapted and expanded the short story cycle to convey subversive or controversial ideas without alienating readers and threatening their ability to succeed within the literary marketplace. The twelve authors highlighted here come from a wide range of cultural, racial, and geographic backgrounds. Their texts represent different, more advanced...
- Contents:
- section I. The making of a genre
- section II. Moving towards the modern
- section III. A fractured society : seeking (and finding) community.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-160) and index.
- Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-18983-2
- 9786612189838
- 1-4438-0385-5
- OCLC:
- 816311902
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