The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story, Volume 1Blanche H. Gelfant, Lawrence Graver Columbia University Press, 2000 - 660 pagina's Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene. |
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Individual Writers Ray Bradbury 1920 | 2 |
In trod uction | 4 |
The American Short Story Cycle | 14 |
The American Short Story I 807 1900 | 24 |
The Asian American Short Story | 40 |
Ernest Hemingway I 899 196i Bernard Malamud 1914 19 | 86 |
William Saroyan 1908 1981 Robert Penn Warren 1905 19 | 89 |
The ChicanoiLatino Short Story | 198 |
The Ecological Short Story | 509 |
Wallace Stegner 1909 I993 | 586 |
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Toshio Mori 19101980 | 390 |
Leslie Marmon Silleo 1948 560 | 430 |
Eudora Welty 1909 | 456 |
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