Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
On the American Short Story.
Critical Contexts.
1: The Short Story Cycle in American Fiction.
2: The Mystery of Existence: The American Short Story in Criticism and Theory.
3: Postcolonial Literature Post-Proulx: How a Border-Crossing Short Story Writer Reconditions the Category.
4: The Metafiction of Tim O'Brien and Richard Russo.
Critical Readings.
5: Knowledge and Power in Henry James' “In the Cage”.
6: “The Blue Hotel” and Stephen Crane's American Violence.
7: “A Study in Pain”: Musical Variations and Ernest Hemingway's “The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio”.
8: Famine in the Cabin: Reading the Hungry in Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's Children.
9: “The Country in the Woman”: “Voice” in a “New” Story by Zora Neale Hurston and the Revival of Formalist Criticism.
10: The “Vanishing American”: Remembering Weldon Kees' Short Fiction.
11: Girls in Search of a Viable Identity in Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples.
12: Identity and Globalization in Jhumpa Lahiri's “Unaccustomed Earth”.
13: Sherman Alexie's Defiant Brand of Humor in Blasphemy.
