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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2012
      September 2006
      ISBN:
      9780511607257
      9780521826433
      9780521533812
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511607257
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.615kg, 302 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.495kg, 302 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest
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    Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Book description

    This wide-ranging introduction to the short story tradition in the United States of America traces the genre from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century with Irving, Hawthorne and Poe via Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner to O'Connor and Carver. The major writers in the genre are covered in depth with a general view of their work and detailed discussion of a number of examples of individual stories. The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to this rich literary tradition. It will be invaluable to students and readers looking for critical approaches to the short story and wishing to deepen their understanding of how authors have approached and developed this fascinating and challenging genre. Further reading suggestions are included to explore the subject in more depth. This is an invaluable overview for all students and readers of American fiction.

    Reviews

    '… a pleasant and informative read …'

    Source: Revue Française d'Etudes Américaine

    'Adrian Hunter's Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English tackles this ambitious task with deliberate selectivity and yet with the declared aim of introducing his readers to a wide selection of short story writers writing in English from a variety of origins.'

    Source: Archiv

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    Contents

    Contents
    References
    Guide to further reading
    Guide to further reading
    American short story anthologies, and other anthologies of American literature containing short stories
    Baym, Nina (ed.), The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5th edn, 2 vols., New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2003
    Best American Short Stories, New York: Houghton Mifflin, annually 1915 to present
    Carver, Raymond, and Jenks, Tom, American Short Story Masterpieces, New York: Dell Publishing, 1987
    Chan, Jeffrey Paul et al. (eds.), Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers, Washington DC: Howard University Press, 1974
    Charters, Ann (ed.), The Short Story and its Writer, New York: St Martin's Press, Inc., 1983
    Cochrane, James, The Penguin Book of American Short Stories, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969
    Current-Garcia, Eugene (ed.), What Is the Short Story?Glenview, Ill.; Brighton: Scott, Foresman & Co., 1974
    Ford, Richard (ed.), The Granta Book of the American Short Story, London: Granta Books, 1992
    Gates, Henry Louis (ed.), The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2004
    Gioia, Dana and Gwynn, R. S. (eds.), The Longman Masters of Short Fiction, New York; London: Longman, 2002
    Hughes, Langston (ed.), The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers: An Anthology from 1899 to the Present, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1967
    Lauter, Paul et al. (eds.), The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 4th edn, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002
    Litz, A. Walton (ed.), Major American Short Stories, 3rd edn, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993
    Major, Clarence (ed.), Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Story Writers, New York: HarperPerennial, 1993
    Marcus, Ben (ed.), The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, New York and Toronto: Anchor Books, 2004
    McMillan, Terry, Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction, New York: Penguin Books, 1990
    Oates, Joyce Carol, The Oxford Book of the American Short Story, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992
    O. Henry Memorial Prize Stories, New York: Doubleday, annually 1919 to present (except 1951–2)
    The Pushcart Prize Stories, Yonkers, NY: Pushcart Press, annually 1977 to present
    Trafzer, Clifford (ed.), Earth Song, Sky Spirit: Short Stories of the Contemporary Native American Experience, New York: Anchor Doubleday, 1993
    Wolff, Tobias (ed.), The Picador Book of Contemporary American Stories, London: Picador, 1993
    Critical works on the American short story
    Ammons, Elizabeth, Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992
    Bone, Robert, Down Home: Origins of the Afro-American Short Story, New York: Columbia University Press, 1988
    Brown, Julie (ed.), American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays, New York and London: Garland, 1995
    Brown, Julie (ed.) Ethnicity and the American Short Story, New York and London: Garland, 1997
    Bowen, James K. and Beets, Richard (eds.), American Short Fiction: Readings and Criticism, Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1970
    Current-Garcia, Eugene, The American Short Story Before 1850: A Critical History, Boston: Twayne, 1985
    Gelfant, Blanche H. (ed.), The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story, New York: Columbia University Press, 2000
    Gerlach, John, Towards the End: Closure and Structure in the American Short Story, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985
    Lee, A. Robert (ed.), The Nineteenth Century American Short Story, London: Vision, 1985
    Levy, Andrew, The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993
    Logsdon, Lauren and Mayer, Charles W., (eds.), Since Flannery O'Connor: Essays on the Contemporary American Short Story, Macomb: Western Illinois University Press, 1987
    Mann, Susan Garland, The Short Story Cycle: a Genre Companion and Reference Guide, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989
    McClave, Heather (ed.), Women Writers of the Short Story, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1980
    Meanor, Patrick and McNicholas, Joseph (eds.), American Short Story Writers Since World War II, 4th Series, Detroit: Gale Group, 2001
    Nagel, James, The Contemporary American Short Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001
    O'Brien, Edward, The Advance of the American Short Story (1931), Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1977
    Pattee, F. L., The Development of the American Short Story (1923), New York: Biblo & Tannen, 1975
    Peden, William, The American Short Story: Front Line in the National Defence of Literature, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964
    Peden, WilliamThe American Short Story: Continuity and Change, 1940–1975, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975
    Ross, Danforth, The American Short Story, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1961
    Stevick, Philip (ed.), The American Short Story, 1900–1945, Boston: Twayne, 1984
    Tallack, Douglas, The Nineteenth Century American Short Story: Language, Form and Ideology, London and New York: Routledge, 1993
    Voss, A., The American Short Story: A Critical Survey, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1973
    Weaver, Gordon (ed.), The American Short Story, 1945–1980, Boston: Twayne, 1983
    Werlock, Abby H. P. (ed.), Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story, New York: Checkmark Books, Facts on File Inc., 2000
    West, Ray B. Jnr., The Short Story in America: 1900–1950, Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1952
    Yagoda, Ben, About Town: ‘The New Yorker’ and the World It Made, New York: Da Capo Press, 2001
    General works on American literature containing discussions of short story writers
    Cunliffe, Marcus (ed.), The Literature of the United States, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1987
    Lawrence, D. H.American Literature to 1900, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1993
    Lawrence, D. H.American Literature Since 1900, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1993
    Lawrence, D. H., Studies in Classic American Literature, New York: Viking, 1973
    General critical and theoretical works on the short story
    Burke, Daniel, Beyond Interpretation: Studies in the Modern Short Story, New York: Whitston, 1991
    Head, Dominic, The Modernist Short Story, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992
    Lohafer, Susan, Coming to Terms with the Short Story, Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1983
    Lohafer, Susan, and Clary, Jo Ellen, (eds.), Short Story Theory at the Crossroads, Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1989
    Matthews, Brander, The Philosophy of the Short Story (1901), Philadelphia: R. West, 1977
    May, Charles B. (ed.), Short Story Theories, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1976
    May, Charles B. (ed.) The New Short Story Theories, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1994
    May, Charles B. (ed.) The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice, New York: Twayne; London: Prentice International, 1995
    O'Connor, Frank, The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story (1960), Hoboken, NJ: Melville House, 2004
    O'Faolain, Sean, The Short Story, London and Mercier Press, 1972
    Reid, Ian, The Short Story, London and New York: Routledge, 1977
    Shaw, Valerie, The Short Story: A Critical Introduction, London and New York: Longman, 1983
    Bibliographies of criticism of the short story
    Thurston, Jarvis, Short Fiction Criticism: A Checklist of Interpretation since 1925 of Stories and Novelettes (American, British, Continental) 1800–1958, Denver: A. Swallow, 1960
    Weixlmann, J., American Short Fiction: Criticism and Scholarship, 1959–1977: A Checklist, Chicago: Swallow Press, 1982

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