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The American Short Story Handbook
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The American Short Story Handbook

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This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the Americanshort story that includes an historical overview of the topic aswell as discussion of notable American authors and individualstories, from Benjamin Franklin's "The Speech of MissPolly Baker" in 1747 to "The Joy Luck Club".* Includes a selection of writers chosen not only for theircontributions of individual stories but for bodies of work thatadvanced the boundaries of short fiction, including WashingtonIrving, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Jamaica Kincaid, and TimO'Brien* Addresses the ways in which American oral storytelling andother narrative traditions were integral to the formation andflourishing of the short story genre* Written in accessible and engaging prose for students at alllevels by a renowned literary scholar to illuminate an importantgenre that has received short shrift in scholarly literature of thelast century* Includes a glossary defining the most common terms used inliterary history and in critical discussions of fiction, and abibliography of works for further study
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Additional ISBN/GTIN9781118902127
Product TypeE-book
BindingE-book
FormatPDF
FormatReflowable
Publishing date08/12/2014
Edition1. Auflage
SeriesBlackwell Literature Handbooks
LanguageEnglish
File size3858386 Bytes
Article no.6381190
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Product groupBU560
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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.

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