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Connections and influence in the Russian and American short story / edited by Jeff Birkenstein and Robert C. Hauhart.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comparative literature--American and Russian.
- Comparative literature.
- Comparative literature--Russian and American.
- Short stories, Russian--History and criticism.
- Short stories, Russian.
- Short stories, American--History and criticism.
- Short stories, American.
- Russian literature--Influence.
- Russian literature.
- American literature--Influence.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 299 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Preface / Robert C. Hauhartand, Jeff Birkenstein
- Calls from beyond and within: a nonhuman reading of the short stories of Nikolai Gogol and Washington Irving / Naruhiko Mikado
- Empathy and human feeling in the short stories of O. Henry and Anton Chekhov / Iren Boyarkina
- From Poe to James via Dostoevsky: cognizing doppelgangers in American and Russian short fiction / Irina Golovacheva
- "Smile and scream" in The Little Review: Russian short fiction and Transatlantic avant-garde / Maria Krivosheina
- The resonance of Dostoevsky's "Bobok" in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury / Sahar J. Al-Keshwan
- Black in the USSR: Langston Hughes, Ivan Turgenev, and the radical potential of the short story / Laura Ryan
- Composing thoughts: Reading Daniil Kharms's Workin the Light of Short Story Collection Theory / Pedro Querido
- Outsiders and others: revisiting Richard Wright's "Underground Man" / Durthy A. Washington
- "The strange and the commonplace in one": spirituality, mystery, and the personal quest in the short fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Anton Chekhov / Frank P. Fury
- Gorky's orphans: the unraveling of socialist humanism in Russian and African American tramp stories / Kevin Lucas
- Vladimir Nabokov's American short story surrounded by the image of Russia: "The Vane Sisters" in Nabokov's Quartet interacting with Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" Kiyoko Magome
- Existential quests in the short story: Gogol's "The Overcoat", Bellow's "Looking for Mr. Green," and Cheever's "The Swimmer" / Robert C. Hauhart
- Divine beings in short stories by Nabokov, Garcia Marquez, and Le Guin: a secular reading / Anastasia G. Pease
- Two ladies, two dogs: on moral luck and determinism in Chekhov and Oates / Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis
- Food, influence, the short story, Anton Chekhov, and Raymond Carver / Jeff Birkenstein
- Heterosexual fictions: Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies / Lucky Issar
- Tolstoy's influence in Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge and Olive, again / Christine Tachick Kern
- Tiny haunted empires: domestic fabulism in the home in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's "Quadraturin" and Kelly Link's "Stone Animals" / Emrys Donaldson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 13, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Connections and influence in the Russian and American short story
- ISBN:
- 9781793629890
- 1793629897
- Publisher Number:
- 40030488973
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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