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The cambridge introduction to the american short story / Martin Scofield.

By: Scofield, Martin.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge introductions to literature.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006Description: ix, 291 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0521533813.Other title: Introduction to the American short story.Subject(s): Short stories, American -- History and criticismDDC classification: 813.0109
Contents:
The short story as ironic myth: Washington Irving and William Austin -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Herman Melville -- New territories: Bret Harte and Mark Twain -- Realism, the grotesque and impressionism: Hamlin Garland, Ambrose
Bierce and Stephen Crane -- Henry James -- Rebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather -- Growth, fragmentation, new aesthetics and new
voices in the early twentieth century -- O. Henry and Jack London -- Sherwood Anderson -- Ernest Hemingway -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- William Faulkner -- Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor -- Charles Chesnutt, Richard
Wright, James Baldwin and the African American short story to 1965 -- Aspects of the American short story 1930-1980 -- Two traditions and the changing idea of the mainstream -- The postmodern short story in America -- Raymond Carver -- The
contemporary American short story.
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The short story as ironic myth: Washington Irving and William Austin -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Herman Melville -- New territories: Bret Harte and Mark Twain -- Realism, the grotesque and impressionism: Hamlin Garland, Ambrose

Bierce and Stephen Crane -- Henry James -- Rebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather -- Growth, fragmentation, new aesthetics and new

voices in the early twentieth century -- O. Henry and Jack London -- Sherwood Anderson -- Ernest Hemingway -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- William Faulkner -- Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor -- Charles Chesnutt, Richard

Wright, James Baldwin and the African American short story to 1965 -- Aspects of the American short story 1930-1980 -- Two traditions and the changing idea of the mainstream -- The postmodern short story in America -- Raymond Carver -- The

contemporary American short story.

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