The Cambridge Introduction To The American Short Story

Author : Martin Scofield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139457651

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The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story by Martin Scofield Pdf

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.

Author : Adrian Hunter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521862590

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The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English by Adrian Hunter Pdf

The short story has become an increasingly important genre since the mid-nineteenth century. Complementing The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story, this book examines the development of the short story in Britain and other English-language literatures. It considers issues of form and style alongside - and often as part of - a broader discussion of publishing history and the cultural contexts in which the short story has flourished and continues to flourish. In its structure the book provides a chronological survey of the form, usefully grouping writers to show the development of the genre over time. Starting with Dickens and Kipling, the chapters cover key authors from the past two centuries and up to the present day. The focus on form, literary history, and cultural context, together with the highlighting of the greatest short stories and their authors, make this a stimulating and informative overview for all students of English literature.

Author : Michael J. Collins,Gavin Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009292856

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The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story by Michael J. Collins,Gavin Jones Pdf

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.

Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107084179

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The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story by Ann-Marie Einhaus Pdf

This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.

Author : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521196314

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The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945 by John N. Duvall Pdf

A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.

Author : Pericles Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521828093

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The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism by Pericles Lewis Pdf

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Author : David Herman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521856966

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The Cambridge Companion to Narrative by David Herman Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction, to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character, dialogue, genre or language, shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example, and indicates directions for further research. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative, a glossary of key terms and a comprehensive index, this is an essential resource for both students and scholars in many fields, including language and literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, jurisprudence, communication and media studies, and the social sciences.

Author : Coral Ann Howells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827317

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The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood by Coral Ann Howells Pdf

Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions of her celebrity. The main concern is with Atwood the writer, but there is also Atwood the media star and public performer, cultural critic, environmentalist and human rights spokeswoman, social and political satirist, and mythmaker. This immensely varied profile is addressed in a series of chapters which cover biographical, textual, and contextual issues. The Introduction contains an analysis of dominant trends in Atwood criticism since the 1970s, while the essays by twelve leading international Atwood critics represent the wide range of different perspectives in current Atwood scholarship.

Author : Florence Goyet
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781909254756

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The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925 by Florence Goyet Pdf

The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular - the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing - particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagawa Ry?nosuke - Goyet shows that these authors were able to create brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicals. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. In doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this 'forgotten' genre.

Author : Kirk Curnutt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139462471

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The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald by Kirk Curnutt Pdf

Although F. Scott Fitzgerald remains one of the most recognizable literary figures of the twentieth century, his legendary life - including his tempestuous romance with his wife and muse Zelda - continues to overshadow his art. However glamorous his image as the poet laureate of the 1920s, he was first and foremost a great writer with a gift for fluid, elegant prose. This introduction reminds readers why Fitzgerald deserves his preeminent place in literary history. It discusses not only his best-known works, The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender Is the Night (1934), but the full scope of his output, including his other novels and his short stories. This book introduces new readers and students of Fitzgerald to his trademark themes, his memorable characters, his significant plots, the literary modes and genres from which he borrowed, and his inimitable style.

Author : Gerald Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521895613

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The Cambridge Introduction to Gabriel García Márquez by Gerald Martin Pdf

A concise, comprehensive and original introduction to the fiction and journalism of Gabriel García Márquez.

Author : Ruth Prigozy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521624746

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The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald by Ruth Prigozy Pdf

Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Eleven specially-commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clearly written and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer and as a public and private figure. No aspect of his career is overlooked, from his first novel published in 1920, through his more than 170 short stories, to his last unfinished Hollywood novel. Contributions present the reader with a full and accessible picture of the background of American social and cultural change in the early decades of the twentieth century. The introduction traces Fitzgerald's career as a literary and public figure, and examines the extent to which public recognition has affected his reputation among scholars, critics, and general readers over the past sixty years. This is the only volume that offers undergraduates, graduates and general readers a full account of Fitzgerald's work as well as suggestions for further exploration of his work. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Fitzgerald, F, Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 Criticism and interpretation Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Author : Michael J. Collins,Gavin Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009292818

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The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story by Michael J. Collins,Gavin Jones Pdf

Comprising new work by leading scholars, this book traces the history of American short fiction and provides original avenues for research.

Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316618048

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The Cambridge History of the English Short Story by Dominic Head Pdf

The Cambridge History of the English Short Story is the first comprehensive volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Charting the origins and generic evolution of the English short story to the present day, and written by international experts in the field, this book covers numerous transnational and historical connections between writers, modes and forms of transmission. Suitable for English literature students and scholars of the English short story generally, it will become a standard work of reference in its field.

Author : Alfred Bendixen,James Nagel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119685647

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A Companion to the American Short Story by Alfred Bendixen,James Nagel Pdf