Handbook of the American short story / edited by Erik Redling, Oliver Scheiding.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scheiding, Oliver, editor.

Redling, Erik, editor.

Series:

Handbooks of English and American studies ; Volume 15.

Handbooks of English and American studies ; Volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American--History and criticism.

Short stories, American.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (712 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : de Gruyter, [2022]

Summary:

This series has been designed to offer students and researchers a compact means of orientation in their study of Anglophone literary texts. Each volume will introduce readers to current concepts and methodologies, as well as academic debates, by combining theory with text analysis and contextual anchoring.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Editors’ Preface

Contents

0 Introduction: The American Short Story – Past and Present

Part I: Systematic Questions

1 Of Sketches, Tales, and Stories: Theoretical Reflections on the Genre of the Short Story

2 Canon Formation and the American Short Story

3 Current Approaches to the American Short Story

4 Textual Materiality, Magazine Culture, and the American Short Story

Part II: Close Readings

5 Washington Irving (1783–1859)

6 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

7 Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

8 Herman Melville (1819–1891)

9 Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens, 1835–1910)

10 Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932)

11 Kate Chopin (1850–1904)

12 Henry James (1843–1916)

13 Jack London (1876–1916)

14 Zitkala-Ša (1876–1938)

15 Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)

16 Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

17 Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

18 William Faulkner (1897–1962)

19 Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

20 James Baldwin (1924–1987)

21 Shirley Jackson (1916–1965)

22 Bernard Malamud (1914–1986)

23 Grace Paley (1922–2007)

24 Donald Barthelme (1931–1989)

25 Tim O’Brien (1946–)

26 Raymond Carver (1938–1988)

27 Alice Walker (1944–)

28 Leslie Marmon Silko (1948–)

29 Sandra Cisneros (1954–)

30 Louise Erdrich (1954–)

31 Lydia Davis (1947–)

32 George Saunders (1958–)

33 Junot Díaz (1968–)

34 Yiyun Li (1972–)

35 N.K. Jemisin (1972–)

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

List of Contributors

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Redling, Erik Handbook of the American Short Story

ISBN:

3-11-058532-4

3-11-058764-5

OCLC:

1294147016