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* Sets the short story in context, paying attention to the interaction of cultural forces and aesthetic principles
* Contributes to the ongoing redefinition of the American canon, with close attention to the achievements of women writers as well as such important genres as the ghost story and detective fiction
* Embraces diverse traditions including African-American, Jewish-American, Latino, Native-American, and regional short story writing
* Includes a section focused on specific authors and texts, from Edgar Allen Poe to John Updike
* Sets the short story in context, paying attention to the interaction of cultural forces and aesthetic principles
* Contributes to the ongoing redefinition of the American canon, with close attention to the achievements of women writers as well as such important genres as the ghost story and detective fiction
* Embraces diverse traditions including African-American, Jewish-American, Latino, Native-American, and regional short story writing
* Includes a section focused on specific authors and texts, from Edgar Allen Poe to John Updike
Alfred Bendixen has taught at Princeton University, Texas A&M University, California State University - Los Angeles, and Barnard College. He is best known as the founder and Executive Director of the American Literature Association. His recent work focuses on the development of genre in a democratic society and includes The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing, co-edited with Judith Hamera (2009); A Companion to the American Novel, (Blackwell 2012); The Cambridge History of American Poetry, co-edited with Stephen Burt (2015); and The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture, co-edited with Olivia Carr Edenfield ( Routledge 2017).
James Nagel is the Eidson Distinguished Professor of American Literature Emeritus at the University of Georgia. From 2012 to 2018 he served as Resident Scholar at Dartmouth College. Early in his career he founded the scholarly journal Studies in American Fiction and the widely influential series Critical Essays on American Literature. Among his twenty-four books are Stephen Crane and Literary Impressionism, Hemingway in Love and War (which was made into a Hollywood film directed by Lord Richard Attenborough), The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle, and Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories. He has published some eighty articles in the field, and he has lectured on American literature in seventeen countries.
Acknowledgments
Part I: The Nineteenth Century
Part II: The Transition into the New Century
Part III: The Twentieth Century
Part IV: Expansive Considerations
Index
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2010 |
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Genre: | Allgemeine Lexika |
Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | 534 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9781405115438 |
ISBN-10: | 1405115432 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: |
Bendixen, Alfred
Nagel, James |
Redaktion: |
Alfred Bendixen
James Nagel |
Herausgeber: | Alfred Bendixen/James Nagel |
Hersteller: |
Wiley
John Wiley & Sons |
Maße: | 254 x 177 x 38 mm |
Von/Mit: | Alfred Bendixen (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 15.03.2010 |
Gewicht: | 1,104 kg |
Alfred Bendixen has taught at Princeton University, Texas A&M University, California State University - Los Angeles, and Barnard College. He is best known as the founder and Executive Director of the American Literature Association. His recent work focuses on the development of genre in a democratic society and includes The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing, co-edited with Judith Hamera (2009); A Companion to the American Novel, (Blackwell 2012); The Cambridge History of American Poetry, co-edited with Stephen Burt (2015); and The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture, co-edited with Olivia Carr Edenfield ( Routledge 2017).
James Nagel is the Eidson Distinguished Professor of American Literature Emeritus at the University of Georgia. From 2012 to 2018 he served as Resident Scholar at Dartmouth College. Early in his career he founded the scholarly journal Studies in American Fiction and the widely influential series Critical Essays on American Literature. Among his twenty-four books are Stephen Crane and Literary Impressionism, Hemingway in Love and War (which was made into a Hollywood film directed by Lord Richard Attenborough), The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle, and Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories. He has published some eighty articles in the field, and he has lectured on American literature in seventeen countries.
Acknowledgments
Part I: The Nineteenth Century
Part II: The Transition into the New Century
Part III: The Twentieth Century
Part IV: Expansive Considerations
Index
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2010 |
---|---|
Genre: | Allgemeine Lexika |
Rubrik: | Literaturwissenschaft |
Medium: | Buch |
Inhalt: | 534 S. |
ISBN-13: | 9781405115438 |
ISBN-10: | 1405115432 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: |
Bendixen, Alfred
Nagel, James |
Redaktion: |
Alfred Bendixen
James Nagel |
Herausgeber: | Alfred Bendixen/James Nagel |
Hersteller: |
Wiley
John Wiley & Sons |
Maße: | 254 x 177 x 38 mm |
Von/Mit: | Alfred Bendixen (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 15.03.2010 |
Gewicht: | 1,104 kg |