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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    May 2023
    May 2023
    ISBN:
    9781009292863
    9781009292818
    9781009292849
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009292863
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.75kg, 412 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.62kg, 412 Pages
    • Collection:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Collection:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance in comparison with the novel, this Companion seeks to understand what the short story does – how it moves through national space, how it is always related to other genres and media, and how its inherent mobility responds to the literary marketplace and resonates with key critical themes in contemporary literary studies. The chapters offer authoritative introductions and reinterpretations of a literary form that has re-emerged as a major force in the twenty-first-century public sphere dominated by the Internet.

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    ‘… reminds the reader why a century of short story writing has shaped American literature from Edgar Allen Poe to Teju Cole. … Highly recommended.’

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