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Beschreibung
A comprehensive introduction to the genre from Edgar Allen Poe to Raymond Carver.
A comprehensive introduction to the genre from Edgar Allen Poe to Raymond Carver.
Über den Autor
Martin Scofield is Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction; 2. The short story as ironic myth: Washington Irving and William Austin; 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne; 4. Edgar Allan Poe; 5. Herman Melville; 6. New territories: Bret Harte and Mark Twain; 7. Realism, the grotesque and impressionism: Hamlin Garland, Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane; 8. Henry James; 9. Rebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman; 10. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather and Edith Wharton; 11. Growth, fragmentation, new aesthetics and new voices in the early twentieth century; 12. O. Henry and Jack London; 13. Sherwood Anderson; 14. Ernest Hemingway; 15. F. Scott Fitzgerald; 16. William Faulkner; 17. Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor; 18. Charles Chesnutt, Richard Wright, James Baldwin and the African American short story to 1965; 19. Aspects of the American short story 1930-80; 20. Two traditions and the changing idea of the mainstream; 22. The postmodern short story in America; 22. Raymond Carver; 23. Epilogue: the contemporary American short story; Guide to further reading.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780521533812
ISBN-10: 0521533813
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Scofield, Martin
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Martin Scofield
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2010
Gewicht: 0,493 kg
Artikel-ID: 115530775