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The Columbia companion to the twentieth-century American short story / Blanche Gelfant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gelfant, Blanche H., 1922-2013.
- 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
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