The American Short Story Handbook / Blackwell Literature Handbooks (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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...
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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".
* 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
* Addresses the ways in which American oral storytelling and
other narrative traditions were integral to the formation and
flourishing of the short story genre
* 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
* 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
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".
* 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
* Addresses the ways in which American oral storytelling and
other narrative traditions were integral to the formation and
flourishing of the short story genre
* 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
* 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
Autoren-Porträt von James Nagel
James Nagel is the Eidson Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia and a Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College, USA. He is President of the Society for the Study of the American Short Story and Former President of the International Ernest Hemingway Society. Early in his career he founded the scholarly journal Studies in American Fiction and the widely influential series Critical Essays on American Literature, which published 156 volumes of scholarship. Among his twenty-three books are Stephen Crane and Literary Impressionism (1980), Hemingway in Love and War (1989, which was made into a Hollywood film starring Sandra Bullock), The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle (2001), Anthology of The American Short Story (2007), The Blackwell Companion to the American Short Story (Wiley Blackwell, 2010), and Race and Culture in Stories of New Orleans (2014). He has been a Fulbright Professor as well as a Rockefeller Fellow. He has published some eighty articles in the field and lectured on American literature in fifteen countries.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: James Nagel
- 2014, 1. Auflage, 328 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1118902130
- ISBN-13: 9781118902134
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.12.2014
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