UID:
edocfu_9958351824402883
Umfang:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780231504959
Inhalt:
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," and part 2 contains more than one hundred essays on the lives and work of individual writers, including engaging pieces on promising new writers.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Contributors --
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Introduction --
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Part I. Thematic Essays --
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The American Short Story Cycle --
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The American Short Story, 1807-1900--
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The African American Short Story --
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The Asian American Short Story --
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The Chicano-Latino Short Story --
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The Ecological Short Story --
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Lesbian and Gay Short Stories --
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The Native American Short Story --
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Non-English American Short Stories --
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The American Working-Class Short Story --
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American Short Stories of the Holocaust --
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Part II. Individual Writers and Their Work --
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Alice Adams (1926-1999) --
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Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) --
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James Baldwin (1924-1987) --
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John Barth (1930- ) --
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Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) --
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Rick Bass (1959- ) --
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Richard Bausch (1945- ) --
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Charles Baxter (1947- ) --
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Ann Beattie (1947- ) --
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Saul Bellow (1915- ) --
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Gina Berriault (1926- ) --
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Doris Betts (1932- ) --
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Paul Bowles (1910-1999) --
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Kay Boyle (1902-1992) --
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Ray Bradbury (1920- ) --
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Kate Braverman (1950- ) --
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Larry Brown (1951- ) --
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Erskine Caldwell --
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Hortense Calisher (1911- ) --
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Truman Capote (1924-1984) --
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Raymond Carver (1938-1988) --
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Willa Cather (1873-1974) --
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John Cheever (1912-1982) --
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Sandra Cisneros (1954- ) --
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Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909-1971) --
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Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930- ) --
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Robert Coover (1932- ) --
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Lydia Davis (1947- ) --
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1953- ) --
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Andre Dubus (1936-1999) --
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Deborah Eisenberg (1946- ) --
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Stanley Elkin (1930-1995) --
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George P. Elliott (1918-1980) --
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John Fante (1909-1983) --
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James T. Farrell (1904-1979) --
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William Faulkner (1897-1962) --
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) --
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Richard Ford (1944- ) --
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Mary Gaitskill (1954- ) --
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William H. Gass (1924- ) --
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Ellen Gilchrist (1935- ) --
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Herbert Gold (1924- ) --
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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) --
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Amy Hempel (1951- ) --
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Mary Hood (1946- ) --
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Langston Hughes (1902-1967) --
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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) --
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Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) --
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Jamaica Kincaid (1949- ) --
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Ring Lardner (1885-1933) --
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David Leavitt (1961- ) --
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Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- ) --
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Meridel Le Sueur (1900-1996) --
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Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (1944- ) --
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Jack London (1876-1916) --
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David Wong Louie (1954- ) --
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Norman Mailer (1923- ) --
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Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) --
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Bobbie Anne Mason (1940- ) --
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Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) --
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Elizabeth McCracken (1966- ) --
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Carson McCullers (1917-1967) --
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Thomas McGuane (1939- ) --
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James Alan McPherson (1943- ) --
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Nicholasa Mohr (1938- ) --
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Lorrie Moore (1957- ) --
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Toshio Mori (1910-1980) --
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Bharati Mukherjee (1940- ) --
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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) --
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Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ) --
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Tim O’Brien (1946- ) --
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Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) --
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John O’Hara (1905-1970) --
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Tillie Olsen (1913?- ) --
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Simon Ortiz (1941- ) --
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Cynthia Ozick (1928- ) --
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Grace Paley (1922- ) --
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Américo Paredes (1915-1999) --
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) --
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Jayne Anne Phillips (1952- ) --
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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) --
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William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862-1910) --
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Annie Proulx (1935- ) --
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Thomas Pynchon (1937- ) --
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) --
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Alberto Alvaro Ríos (1952- ) --
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Philip Roth (1933- ) --
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Damon Runyon (1880-1946) --
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J. D. Salinger (1919- ) --
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Bienvenido N. Santos (1911-1996) --
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William Saroyan (1908-1981) --
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Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) --
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Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- ) --
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Jean Stafford (1915-1979) --
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Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) --
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John Steinbeck (1902-1968) --
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Elizabeth Tallent (1954- ) --
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Peter Taylor (1917-1994) --
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James Thurber (1894-1961) --
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John Updike (1932- ) --
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Helena María Viramontes (1954- ) --
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Anna Lee Walters (1946- ) --
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Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) --
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Sylvia A. Watanabe (1953- ) --
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Eudora Welty (1909- ) --
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Edith Wharton (1862-1937) --
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Joy Williams (1944- ) --
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Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) --
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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) --
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Tobias Wolff (1945- ) --
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Richard Wright (1908-1960) --
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Hisaye Yamamoto (1921- ) --
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Anzia Yezierska (1881-1970) --
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Index
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In English.
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/gelf11098
