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Critical survey of short fiction : world writers / editor, Charles E. May.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- May, Charles E., author.
- Series:
- Critical Survey of Short Fiction.
- Critical Survey of Short Fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short story.
- Short story--Authorship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 516 pages) : portraits
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines writers from a wide range of different countries, including Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges, China's Ha Jin, India's Salman Rushdie, and Russia's Alexander Puskin. New writers include Japan's Haruki Murakami, and Jamaican Michelle Cliff.
- Contents:
- Publisher's note
- Contributors
- Key to pronunciation
- Achebe, Chinua
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- Agnon, Shmuel Yosef
- Aidoo, Ama Ata
- Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
- Alarcon, Daniel
- Aleichem, Sholom
- Allende, Isabel
- Arreola, Juan Jose
- Asturias, Miguel Angel
- Babel, Isaac
- Bombal, Maria Luisa
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Bunin, Ivan
- Carpentier, Alejo
- Chandra, Vikram
- Chekhov, Anton
- Cliff, Michelle
- Cortazar, Julio
- Dazai, Osamu
- Desai, Anita
- Donoso, Jose
- Dostoevski, Fyodor
- Dovlatov, Sergei
- Endo, Shusaku
- Fuentes, Carlos
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
- Gogol, Nikolai
- Gordimer, Nadine
- Gorky, Maxim
- Guimaraes Rosa, Joao
- Head, Bessie
- Hearn, Lafcadio
- Ihara Saikaku
- Jin, Ha
- Kawabata, Yasunari
- Leskov, Nikolai
- Lispector, Clarice
- Lu Xun
- Nahman of Bratslav, Rabbi
- Naipaul, V.S.
- Narayan, R.K.
- Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Oe, Kenzaburo
- Okri, Ben
- Onetti, Juan Carlos
- Oz, Amos
- Pasternak, Boris
- Pu Songling
- Pushkin, Alexander
- Quiroga, Horacio
- Rasputin, Valentin
- Rulfo, Juan
- Rushdie, Salman
- Senior, Olive
- Shalamov, Varlam
- Sinyavsky, Andrei
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Tanizaki, Jun'ichiro
- Tolstaya, Tatyana
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Turgenev, Ivan
- Valenzuela, Luisa
- Vargas Llosa, Mario
- Wang Anyi
- Wicomb, Zoe
- Xu Xi
- Zamyatin, Yevgeny
- Zhang Jie
- Zoshchenko, Mikhail
- Terms and techniques
- Bibliography
- Guide to online resources.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781587658082
- 1587658089
- OCLC:
- 781420499
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