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The American Short Story Handbook
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The handbook also examines the role of American oral storytelling traditions in shaping the genre, delivering insights in accessible and engaging prose. It includes a glossary of literary terms and a bibliography for further study, making it an invaluable resource for understanding this vibrant literary form.
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This book is ideal for students and readers interested in American literature and the development of short fiction. Its clear language and comprehensive coverage make it especially suited for those studying literary history or seeking to deepen their appreciation of the short story.
This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories, from Benjamin Franklin s The Speech of Miss Polly Baker in 1747 to The Joy Luck Club .
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This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories, from Benjamin Franklin’s “The Speech of Miss Polly Baker” in 1747 to The Joy Luck Club.
The American Short Story Handbook includes a selection of writers chosen not only for their contributions of individual stories but for bodies of work that advanced the boundaries of short fiction, including Washington Irving, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tim O’Brien.
It addresses the ways in which American oral storytelling and other narrative traditions were integral to the formation and flourishing of the short story genre.
Written in accessible and engaging prose for students at all levels by a renowned literary scholar, the book illuminates an important genre that has received short shrift in scholarly literature of the last century.
The book also includes a glossary defining the most common terms used in literary history and in critical discussions of fiction, along with a bibliography of works for further study.
Series: Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
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ISBN: 9780470655429
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 February 2015
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 150.0mm
Height: 226.0mm
Weight: 408g
Pages: 336
About the Author
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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