Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-231-11099-0
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 952 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 885 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gelfant, Blanche

Weitere Mitwirkende

Graver, Lawrence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

IntroductionPart I. Thematic Essays The American Short Story CycleThe American Short Story, 1807-1900The African American Short StoryThe Asian American Short StoryThe Chicano-Latino Short StoryThe Ecological Short StoryLesbian and Gay Short StoriesThe Native American Short StoryNon-English American Short StoriesThe American Working-Class Short StoryAmerican Short Stories of the HolocaustPart II. Individual Writers and Their Work Alice Adams (1926-1999)Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)James Baldwin (1924-1987)John Barth (1930- )Donald Barthelme (1931-1989)Rick Bass (1959- )Richard Bausch (1945- )Charles Baxter (1947- )Ann Beattie (1947- )Saul Bellow (1915- )Gina Berriault (1926- )Doris Betts (1932- )Paul Bowles (1910-1999)Kay Boyle (1902-1992)Ray Bradbury (1920- )Kate Braverman (1950- )Larry Brown (1951- )Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987)Hortense Calisher (1911- )Truman Capote (1924-1984)Raymond Carver (1938-1988)Willa Cather (1873-1947)John Cheever (1912-1982)Sandra Cisneros (1954- )Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909-1971)Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930- )Robert Coover (1932- )Lydia Davis (1947- )Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1953- )Andre Dubus (1936-1999)Deborah Eisenberg (1946- )Stanley Elkin (1930-1995)George P. Elliott (1918-1980)John Fante (1909-1983)James T. Farrell (1904-1979)William Faulkner (1897-1962)F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)Richard Ford (1944- )Mary Gaitskill (1954- )William H. Gass (1924- )Ellen Gilchrist (1935- )Herbert Gold (1924- )Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)Amy Hempel (1951- )Mary Hood (1946- )Langston Hughes (1902-1967)Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)Shirley Jackson (1916-1965)Jamaica Kincaid (1949- )Ring Lardner (1885-1933)David Leavitt (1961- )Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- )Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996)Shirley Geok-lin Lim (1944- )Jack London (1876-1916)David Wong Louie (1954- )Norman Mailer (1923- )Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)Bobbie Anne Mason (1940- )Mary McCarthy (1912-1989)Elizabeth McCracken (1966- )Carson McCullers (1917-1967)Thomas McGuane (1939- )James Alan McPherson (1943- )Nicholasa Mohr (1938- )Lorrie Moore (1957- )Toshio Mori (1910-1980)Bharati Mukherjee (1940- )Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)Joyce Carol Oates (1938- )Tim O'Brien (1946- )Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)John O'Hara (1905-1970)Tillie Olsen (1913?- )Simon Ortiz (1941- )Cynthia Ozick (1928- )Grace Paley (1922- )Américo Paredes (1915-1999)Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)Jayne Anne Phillips (1952- )Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862-1910)E. Annie Proulx (1935- )Thomas Pynchon (1937- )Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)Alberto Alvaro Ríos (1952- )Philip Roth (1933- )Damon Runyon (1880-1946)J. D. Salinger (1919- )Bienvenido N. Santos (1911-1996) William Saroyan (1908-1981)Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966)Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- )Jean Stafford (1915-1979)Wallace Stegner (1909-1993)John Steinbeck (1902-1968)Elizabeth Tallent (1954- )Peter Taylor (1917-1994)James Thurber (1894-1961)John Updike (1932- )Helena María Viramontes (1954- )Anna Lee Walters (1946- )Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)Sylvia A. Watanabe (1953- )Eudora Welty (1909- )Edith Wharton (1862-1937)Joy Williams (1944- )Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)Tobias Wolff (1945- )Richard Wright (1908-1960)Hisaye Yamamoto (1921- )Anzia Yezierska (1881-1970)Index

Über Autor(innen)

Blanche H. Gelfant is the author of The American City Novel, Women Writing in America: Voices in Collage, and Cross-Cultural Reckonings: A Triptych of Russian, American and Canadian Texts. For many years she was the Robert E. Maxwell Professor in the Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth. In recognition of her contributions as critic and scholar, the American Literature Division of the Modern Language Association has honored professor Gelfant with the Jay B. Hubbell Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies.