The American short story : a critical survey /
Voss, Arthur
The American short story : a critical survey / by Arthur Voss. - First edition. - xi, 399 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The beginnings of the American short story : Washington Irving -- Romance, allegory, and morality : Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville -- Terror, mystery, and ratiocination : Edgar Allan Poe -- Local color and Western humor : Bret Harte and Mark Twain -- The regional story in New England, the South, and the Middle West : Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, George Washington Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Nelson Page, Hamlin Garland, and others -- The rise of the journalistic short story : O. Henry and his predecessors -- The short story as fine art : Henry James -- The short story in transition : Stephen Crane, Jack London, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Theodore Dreiser -- The liberation of the short story : Sherwood Anderson -- Short-story writers of the 1920s : Wilbur Daniel Steele, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Conrad Aiken, and Stephen Vincent Benét -- The discovery of a style : Ernest Hemingway -- Virtuoso storyteller : William Faulkner -- Social protest and other themes in the short story, 1930 to 1940 : Erskine Caldwell, James T. Farrell, John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, John O'Hara, Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, and Kay Boyle -- Symbolism and sensibility : Katherine Anne Porter -- The short story since 1940 : Eudora Welty, Mary McCarthy, Jean Stafford, J.F. Powers, J.D. Salinger, Bernard Malamud, and Flannery O'Connor -- Appendix: Other contemporary short story writers.
Presents a critical survey of the American short story, its origins, its trends, and its creators. Surveys major authors.
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 --Criticism and interpretation
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 --Criticism and interpretation
Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 --Criticism and interpretation
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 --Criticism and interpretation
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 --Criticism and interpretation
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 --Criticism and interpretation
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Criticism and interpretation
Farrell, James T. 1904-1979 --Criticism and interpretation
James, Henry, 1843-1916 --Criticism and interpretation
London, Jack, 1876-1916 --Criticism and interpretation
Henry, O., 1862-1910 --Criticism and interpretation
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 --Criticism and interpretation
Steele, Wilbur Daniel, 1886-1970 --Criticism and interpretation
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968 --Criticism and interpretation
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 --Criticism and interpretation
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973 --Criticism and interpretation
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 --Criticism and interpretation
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 --Criticism and interpretation
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 --Criticism and interpretation
Salinger, J. D., 1919-2010 --Criticism and interpretation
Malamud, Bernard--Criticism and interpretation
O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation
Short stories, American--History and criticism
Authors, American
Literary criticism
PS374.S5 / V677 1975
The American short story : a critical survey / by Arthur Voss. - First edition. - xi, 399 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The beginnings of the American short story : Washington Irving -- Romance, allegory, and morality : Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville -- Terror, mystery, and ratiocination : Edgar Allan Poe -- Local color and Western humor : Bret Harte and Mark Twain -- The regional story in New England, the South, and the Middle West : Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, George Washington Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Nelson Page, Hamlin Garland, and others -- The rise of the journalistic short story : O. Henry and his predecessors -- The short story as fine art : Henry James -- The short story in transition : Stephen Crane, Jack London, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Theodore Dreiser -- The liberation of the short story : Sherwood Anderson -- Short-story writers of the 1920s : Wilbur Daniel Steele, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Conrad Aiken, and Stephen Vincent Benét -- The discovery of a style : Ernest Hemingway -- Virtuoso storyteller : William Faulkner -- Social protest and other themes in the short story, 1930 to 1940 : Erskine Caldwell, James T. Farrell, John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, John O'Hara, Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, and Kay Boyle -- Symbolism and sensibility : Katherine Anne Porter -- The short story since 1940 : Eudora Welty, Mary McCarthy, Jean Stafford, J.F. Powers, J.D. Salinger, Bernard Malamud, and Flannery O'Connor -- Appendix: Other contemporary short story writers.
Presents a critical survey of the American short story, its origins, its trends, and its creators. Surveys major authors.
0806110708 9780806110707
72009264
751025968 can 751025968 60 //r762 can 751025968 80 //r80 can
(AMICUS)000001206774
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 --Criticism and interpretation
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 --Criticism and interpretation
Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 --Criticism and interpretation
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 --Criticism and interpretation
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 --Criticism and interpretation
Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987 --Criticism and interpretation
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 --Criticism and interpretation
Farrell, James T. 1904-1979 --Criticism and interpretation
James, Henry, 1843-1916 --Criticism and interpretation
London, Jack, 1876-1916 --Criticism and interpretation
Henry, O., 1862-1910 --Criticism and interpretation
Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 --Criticism and interpretation
Steele, Wilbur Daniel, 1886-1970 --Criticism and interpretation
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968 --Criticism and interpretation
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 --Criticism and interpretation
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973 --Criticism and interpretation
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 --Criticism and interpretation
Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 --Criticism and interpretation
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 --Criticism and interpretation
Salinger, J. D., 1919-2010 --Criticism and interpretation
Malamud, Bernard--Criticism and interpretation
O'Connor, Flannery--Criticism and interpretation
Short stories, American--History and criticism
Authors, American
Literary criticism
PS374.S5 / V677 1975
