The Columbia companion to the twentieth-century American short story / Blanche Gelfant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gelfant, Blanche H., 1922-2013.

Contributor:

Gelfant, Blanche H., 1922-2013, editor.

Graver, Lawrence, 1931-

Credo Reference (Firm)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

American fiction--20th century.

American fiction.

Short stories.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (126 entries) : 1 image, digital files.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

Part I. Thematic Essays

The American Short Story Cycle / Nagel, James

The American Short Story, 1807-1900 / Smith, David Lionel

The African American Short Story / Seelye, John

The Asian American Short Story / Ling, Amy

The Chicano-Latino Short Story / Saldívar, Ramón

The Ecological Short Story / Love, Glen A.

Lesbian and Gay Short Stories / Corber, Robert J.

The Native American Short Story / Ruppert, James

Non-English American Short Stories / Sollors, Werner

The American Working-Class Short Story / Smith, Larry

American Short Stories of the Holocaust / Furman, Andrew

Part II. Individual Writers and Their Work

Alice Adams (1926-1999) / Johnson, Greg

Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) / Williams, Kenny J.

James Baldwin (1924-1987) / Porter, Horace

John Barth (1930- ) / Edelstein, Arthur

Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) / Weller, Barry

Rick Bass (1959- ) / Ahearn, Kerry

Richard Bausch (1945- ) / Reising, Russell

Charles Baxter (1947- ) / Bradley, Jane

Ann Beattie (1947- ) / Parini, Jay

Saul Bellow (1915- ) / Siegel, Ben

Gina Berriault (1926- ) / Murphy, Karla J.

Doris Betts (1932- ) / McClure, Charlotte S.

Paul Bowles (1910-1999) / Hibbard, Allen

Kay Boyle (1902-1992) / Bell, Elizabeth

Ray Bradbury (1920- ) / Mogen, David

Kate Braverman (1950- ) / Bradley, Jane

Larry Brown (1951- ) / Yow, Dede

Erskine Caldwell / Bledsoe, Erik A.

Hortense Calisher (1911- ) / Stambovsky, Phillip

Truman Capote (1924-1984) / Richards, Gary

Raymond Carver (1938-1988) / Graver, Lawrence

Willa Cather (1873-1974) / Stouck, David

John Cheever (1912-1982) / Warren, James

Sandra Cisneros (1954- ) / Pearce, Richard

Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909-1971) / Westbrook, Max

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930- ) / Wilson, Norma C.

Robert Coover (1932- ) / Caserio, Robert L.

Lydia Davis (1947- ) / Boddy, Kasia

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1953- ) / Rustomji-Kerns, Roshni

Andre Dubus (1936-1999) / Hunter Brown, Suzanne

Deborah Eisenberg (1946- ) / Weller, Barry

Stanley Elkin (1930-1995) / Graver, Lawrence

George P. Elliott (1918-1980) / Stambovsky, Phillip

John Fante (1909-1983) / Gardaphe, Fred L.

James T. Farrell (1904-1979) / Fox, Robert

William Faulkner (1897 -1962) / Mitchell, Lee

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 -1940) / Prigozy, Ruth

Richard Ford (1944 - ) / Dickstein, Morris

Mary Gaitskill (1954 - ) / Berlant, Lauren

William H. Gass (1924 - ) / Safer, Elaine B.

Ellen Gilchrist (1935 - ) / Bradley, Jane

Herbert Gold (1924 - ) / Pinsker, Sanford

Ernest Hemingway (1899 -1961) / Mascuch, Peter

Amy Hempel (1951 - ) / Ahearn, Kerry

Mary Hood (1946 - ) / Yow, Dede

Langston Hughes (1902 -1967) / Sullivan Harper, Donna Akiba

Zora Neale Hurston (1891 -1960) / Kaplan, Carla

Shirley Jackson (1916 -1965) / Hall, Joan Wylie

Jamaica Kincaid (1949 - ) / Frederick, Rhonda Denise

Ring Lardner (1885 -1933) / Sanborn, Geoffrey

David Leavitt (1961 - ) / Rivkin, Julie

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 - ) / Cummins, Elizabeth

Meridel Le Sueur (1900 -1996) / Crawford, John

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (1944 - ) / Xiaojing, Zhou

Jack London (1876 -1916) / Pizer, Donald

David Wong Louie (1954 - ) / Geok-lin Lim, Shirley

Norman Mailer (1923 - ) / Heyne, Eric

Bernard Malamud (1914 -1986) / Shechner, Mark

Bobbie Anne Mason (1940 - ) / Yow, Dede

Mary McCarthy (1912 -1989) / Martin, Wendy

Elizabeth McCracken (1966 - ) / Latiolais, Michelle

Carson McCullers (1917 -1967)

Thomas McGuane (1939 - ) / Cook, Nancy

James Alan McPherson (1943 - ) / Porter, Horace

Nicholasa Mohr (1938 - ) / Cepeda, María Elena

Lorrie Moore (1957 - ) / Raiffa, Janet R.

Toshio Mori (1910 -1980) / Washburn, Dennis

Bharati Mukherjee (1940 - ) / Rege, Josna

Vladimir Nabokov (1899 -1977) / Fix, Stephen

Joyce Carol Oates (1938 - ) / Boddy, Kasia

Tim O'Brien (1946 - ) / Herzog, Tobey C.

Flannery O'Connor (1925 -1964) / Murphy, John J.

John O'Hara (1905 -1970) / Stambovsky, Phillip

Tillie Olsen (1913?- ) / Silverton Rosenfelt, Deborah

Simon Ortiz (1941 - ) / Ruppert, James

Cynthia Ozick (1928 - ) / Shechner, Mark

Grace Paley (1922 - ) / Baumbach, Jonathan

Américo Paredes (1915 -1999) / Leal, Luıís

Dorothy Parker (1893 -1967) / Martin, Wendy

Jayne Anne Phillips (1952 - ) / Boddy, Kasia

Katherine Anne Porter (1890 -1980) / Wimsatt, Mary Ann

William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862 - 1910) / Seelye, John

Annie Proulx (1935 - ) / Raiffa, Janet R.

Thomas Pynchon (1937 - ) / Hite, Molly

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896 -1953) / Tarr, Rodger L.

Alberto Alvaro Ríos (1952 - ) / Shafquat, Sofia

Philip Roth (1933 - ) / Miller Budick, Emily

Damon Runyon (1880 -1946) / Weller, Barry

J. D. Salinger (1919- ) / Shepard, Karen

Bienvenido N. Santos (1911 -1996) / Briscoe, Leonor Aureus

William Saroyan (1908 -1981) / Foster, Edward Halsey

Delmore Schwartz (1913 -1966) / Stambovsky, Phillip

Leslie Marmon Silko (1948 - ) / Graulich, Melody

Jean Stafford (1915 -1979) / Wilson, Mary Ann

Wallace Stegner (1909 -1993) / Scharnhorst, Gary

John Steinbeck (1902 -1968) / Parini, Jay

Elizabeth Tallent (1954 - ) / Latiolais, Michelle

Peter Taylor (1917 -1994) / Burt, John

James Thurber (1894 -1961) / Bell, Robert H.

John Updike (1932 - ) / Graver, Lawrence

Helena María Viramontes (1954 - ) / Spitta, Silvia

Anna Lee Walters (1946 - ) / Wilson, Norma C.

Robert Penn Warren (1905 -1989) / Parini, Jay

Sylvia A. Watanabe (1953 - ) / Xiaojing, Zhou

Eudora Welty (1909 - ) / Burt, John

Edith Wharton (1862 -1937) / Bauer, Dale M.

Joy Williams (1944 - ) / Bradley, Jane

Tennessee Williams (1911 -1983) / Dickstein, Morris

William Carlos Williams (1883 -1963) / Reising, Russell

Tobias Wolff (1945 - ) / Hannah, James

Richard Wright (1908 -1960) / Smith, David Lionel

Hisaye Yamamoto (1921 - ) / Ling, Amy

Anzia Yezierska (1881 -1970) / Kessler-Harris, Alice

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

1-280-59801-8

9786613627841

0-231-50495-0

OCLC:

436844611