Representative American Short Stories
Author : Alexander Jessup
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
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ISBN : 9780849212710
Author : Alexander Jessup
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
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ISBN : 9780849212710
Author : John Freeman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1984877828
A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman In the past fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of styles have brought this unique genre a thrilling burst of energy. The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story celebrates this avalanche of talent. This rich anthology begins in 1970 and brings together a half century of powerful American short stories from all genres, including—for the first time in a collection of this scale—science fiction, horror, and fantasy, placing writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Ken Liu, and Stephen King next to some beloved greats of the literary form: Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Denis Johnson. Culling widely, John Freeman, the former editor of Granta and now editor of his own literary annual, brings forward some astonishing work to be regarded in a new light. Often overlooked tales by Dorothy Allison, Percival Everett, and Charles Johnson will recast the shape and texture of today’s enlarging atmosphere of literary dialogue. Stories by Lauren Groff and Ted Chiang raise the specter of engagement in ecocidal times. Short tales by Tobias Wolff, George Saunders, and Lydia Davis rub shoulders with near novellas by Susan Sontag and Andrew Holleran. This book will be a treasure trove for readers, writers, and teachers alike.
Author : Alexander Jessup
Publisher :
Page : 1183 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Short stories, American
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Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195092622
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Author : Nina Hart
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Short stories
ISBN :
Author : Robert William Chambers
Publisher :
Page : 1250 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN :
Author : Robert William Chambers
Publisher :
Page : 1236 pages
File Size : 14,49 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN :
Author : Martha Foley
Publisher :
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN :
Short stories by such authors as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Wely and many others to yr., 1974.
Author : Erik Redling
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110585324
The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.
Author : John Updike
Publisher :
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The incomparable John Updike selects the 55 finest short stories from America's bestselling anthology, published since 1915.