Alfred Bendixen, James Nagel

Gebundenes Buch

A Companion to the American Short Story

Beschreibung

A Companion to the American Short Story traces the development of this versatile literary genre over the past 200 years.

Sets the short story in context, paying attention to the interaction of cultural forces and aesthetic principles
Contributes to the ongoing redefinition of the American canon, with close attention to the achievements of women writers as well as such important genres as the ghost story and detective fiction
Embraces diverse traditions including African-American, Jewish-American, Latino, Native-American, and regional short story writing
Includes a section focused on specific authors and texts, from Edgar Allen Poe to John Updike

Autor

Alfred Bendixen has taught at Princeton University, Texas A&M University, California State University - Los Angeles, and Barnard College. He is best known as the founder and Executive Director of the American Literature Association. His recent work focuses on the development of genre in a democratic society and includes The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing, co-edited with Judith Hamera (2009); A Companion to the American Novel, (Blackwell 2012); The Cambridge History of American Poetry, co-edited with Stephen Burt (2015); and The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture, co-edited with Olivia Carr Edenfield ( Routledge 2017). James Nagel is the Eidson Distinguished Professor of American Literature Emeritus at the University of Georgia. From 2012 to 2018 he served as Resident Scholar at Dartmouth College. Early in his career he founded the scholarly journal Studies in American Fiction and the widely influential series Critical Essays on American Literature. Among his twenty-four books are Stephen Crane and Literary Impressionism, Hemingway in Love and War (which was made into a Hollywood film directed by Lord Richard Attenborough), The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle, and Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories. He has published some eighty articles in the field, and he has lectured on American literature in seventeen countries.

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 177mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1100g
• ISBN-13: 9781405115438
• ISBN-10: 1405115432
• Artikelnr.: 27866141