The American Short Story Handbook (Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks)

This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories, from Benjamin Franklin’s “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” in 1747 to “The Joy Luck Club”. <ul>
<li>Includes a selection of writers chosen not only for their contributions of individual stories but for bodies of work that advanced the boundaries of short fiction, including Washington Irving, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tim O’Brien</li> <li>Addresses the ways in which American oral storytelling and other narrative traditions were integral to the formation and flourishing of the short story genre</li> <li>Written in accessible and engaging prose for students at all levels by a renowned literary scholar to illuminate an important genre that has received short shrift in scholarly literature of the last century</li> <li>Includes a glossary defining the most common terms used in literary history and in critical discussions of fiction, and a bibliography of works for further study</li> </ul>

Literature & Fiction

Nagel, James

History & Criticism

Wiley/Blackwell

Anthology of the American Short Story offers a diverse collection of stories that reflects not only an expansive range of fictional approaches, but also the breadth of multicultural writers who have contributed to the development of the short-story genre. With a balance between frequently anthologized and newly discovered works, this collection captures the artistic development of the short story, presenting works of exceptional literary quality from 1747 to 2005. Thorough introductions provide a context for each selection by covering the historical and social events as well as major developments in literature associated with the story.

Anthology of the American Short Story

United States

Cengage Learning'

James Nagel offers the first systematic history and definition of the short story cycle genre as exemplified in contemporary American fiction, bringing attention to the format’s wide appeal among various ethnic groups. He examines in detail eight recent manifestations of the story cycle, all praised by critics while uniformly misidentified as novels: Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich; Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid; Monkeys, by Susan Minot; The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros; The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien; How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez; The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan; and A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, by Robert Olen Butler. Nagel proposes that the short-story cycle, with its concentric as opposed to linear plot development possibilities, lends itself particularly well to exploring themes of ethnic assimilation, which mirror some of the major issues facing American society t

The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of the Genre

Louisiana State Univ Pr

James Nagel offers the first systematic history and definition of the short-story cycle as exemplified in contemporary American fiction, bringing attention to the format's wide appeal among various ethnic groups. He examines in detail eight recent manifestations of the genre, all praised by critics while uniformly misidentified as novels. Nagel proposes that the short-story cycle, with its concentric as opposed to linear plot development possibilities, lends itself particularly well to exploring themes of ethnic assimilation, which mirror some of the major issues facing American society today.

The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre

LSU Press

Lists writings by and about American authors, from the end of the Civil War to the end of World War I, and includes Louisa May Alcott, Horatio Alger, Stephen Crane and others

Facts on File Bibliography of American Fiction 1866-1918 (FACTS ON FILE BIBLIOGRAPHY SERIES)

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

FACTS ON FILE+

Covers the works of novelist, poet, and short story writer Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840--1894).

Critical Essays on Constance F. Woolson: C. Fenimore Woolson (Critical Essays on American Literature Series)

Twayne Publishers

Each volume in this series provides an introduction tracing the subject author's critical reputation, trends in interpretation, developments in textual and biographical scholarship, and reprints of selected essays and reviews, beginning with the author's contemporaries and continuing through to current scholarship. Many volumes also feature new essays by leading scholars and critics, specially commissioned for the series.

Critical Essays on Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (Critical Essays on American Literature Series)

Race and Culture in New Orleans Storiesposits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary exploration of crucial social problems in America. Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories is a study of four volumes of interrelated short stories set in New Orleans and the surrounding Louisiana bayous: Kate Chopin’s Bayou Folk; George Washington Cable’s Old Creole Days; Grace King’s Balcony Stories; and Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories. James Nagel argues that the conflicts and themes in these stories cannot be understood without a knowledge of the unique historical context of the founding of Louisiana, its four decades of rule by the Spanish, the Louisiana Purchase and the resulting cultural transformations across the region, Napoleonic law, the Code Noir, the plaçage tradition, the immigration of various ethnic and natural groups into the city, and the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction. All of these historical factors energize and enrich the fiction of this important region. The literary context of these volumes is also central to understanding their place in literary history. They are short-story cycles—collections of short fiction that contain unifying settings, recurring characters or character types, and central themes and motifs. They are also examples of the “local color” tradition in fiction, a movement that has been much misunderstood. Nagel maintains that regional literature was meant to be the highest form of American writing, not the lowest, and its objective was to capture the locations, folkways, values, dialects, conflicts, and ways of life in the various regions of the country in order to show that the lives of common citizens were sufficiently important to be the subject of serious literature. Finally, Nagel shows that New Orleans provided a profoundly rich and complex setting for the literary exploration of some of the most crucial social problems in America, including racial stratification, social caste, economic exploitation, and gender roles, all of which were undergoing rapid transformation at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth.

Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories: Kate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and George Washington Cable

University Alabama Press

Vision and Value: A Thematic Introduction to the Short Story

Words, Language & Grammar

Dickenson Publishing Company

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The American Short Story Handbook (Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks)

The American Short Story Handbook (Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks)

Anthology of the American Short Story

The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of the Genre

The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre

Facts on File Bibliography of American Fiction 1866-1918 (FACTS ON FILE BIBLIOGRAPHY SERIES)

Critical Essays on Constance F. Woolson: C. Fenimore Woolson (Critical Essays on American Literature Series)

Critical Essays on Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (Critical Essays on American Literature Series)

Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories: Kate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and George Washington Cable

Vision and Value: A Thematic Introduction to the Short Story