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The American short story : a critical survey / by Arthur Voss.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: İngilizce Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1975Copyright date: ©1973Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 399 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0806110708
  • 9780806110707
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS374.S5 V677 1975
Contents:
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.
Summary: Presents a critical survey of the American short story, its origins, its trends, and its creators. Surveys major authors.
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Book Book Tıp Fakültesi Medikal Kütüphane Genel Koleksiyon / Main Collection Tıp Fakültesi Medikal Kütüphane Genel Koleksiyon PS374.S5 V677 1975 TıpFaK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Ödünç Verilemez-Kurumiçi kullanım / Not for loan-For inhouse use Donated by Prof. Dr. Şükrü Cin TF02986

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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