Modern American Short Story Sequences

Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities
Herausgeber: J. Gerald, Kennedy; Kennedy, J. Gerald

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1995, this book explores American short story sequences as a twentieth-century genre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780521172622
• ISBN-10: 0521172624
• Artikelnr.: 31386018

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction J. Gerald Kennedy; 1. Henry James's Incipient Poetics of the
Short Story Sequence: The Finer Grain (1910) Richard A. Hocks; 2. Toomer's
Cane as narrative sequence Linda Wagner-Martin; 3. Hemingway's In Our Time:
the biography of a book Michael Reynolds; 4. Wright writing reading:
narrative strategies in Uncle Tom's Children John Lowe; 5. The
African-American voice in Faulkner's Go Down Moses John Carlos Rowe; 6.
Meditations on nonpresence: re-visioning the short story in Eudora Welty's
The Wide Net Susan V. Donaldson; 7. Nine Stories: J. D. Salinger's linked
mysteries Ruth Prigozy; 8. Cheever's Shady Hill: a suburban sequence Scott
Donaldson; 9. John Updike's Olinger Stories: new light among the shadows
Robert M. Luscher; 10. Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: narrative
communities and the short story sequence Hertha D. Wong; 11. From
Anderson's Winesburg to Carver's Cathedral: the short story sequence and
the semblance of community J. Gerald Kennedy.