The Granta Book of the American Short Story

Author: Richard Ford
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781862071094
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 744

Book Description
From the author of "Independence Day", Richard Ford edits and introduces this anthology for "Granta" which has become the most cited and authoritative collection of short stories on both sides of the Atlantic. Ford in his introduction discusses, among other things, the comment of Frank O'Connor that the short-story is handled so cleverly by Americans that it is our national art form.

The Granta Book of the American Long Story

Author: Richard Ford
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 724

Book Description
In this new volume, a companion to "The Granta Book of the American Short Story", Richard Ford brings together ten of the finest American novellas. Ford selected at least one long story from each decade since the 1940s and has included examples by Phillip Roth, Jane Smiley, Eudora Welty, and Edwidge Danticat, among others.

American Short Story since 1950

Author: Kasia Boddy
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748631631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
The American Short Story since 1950 offers a reappraisal and contextualisation of a critically underrated genre during a particularly rich period in its history. It offers new readings of important stories by key writers including Flannery O'Connor, John Cheever, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, Lorrie Moore and Grace Paley. These readings are related throughout to the various contexts in which stories are written and published, including creative writing schools, story-writing handbooks, mass market and 'little' magazines.

The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

Author: Blanche H. Gelfant
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231504950
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 677

Book Description
Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as engaging pieces on the promising new writers to come on the scene.

Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English

Author: Paul Delaney
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474442234
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 563

Book Description
Provides a clear introduction to the key terms and frameworks in cognitive poetics and stylistics

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and Their Work

Author: Geoff Hamilton
Publisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438140673
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1386

Book Description
Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with the English-language fiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Writing America

Author: Katherine Wood (editor of Writing America.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description

Writing America

Author: Keith Donohue
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780756707620
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 118

Book Description
This edition of Writing America, published by the Nat. Endow. for the Arts (NEA), features the work of 50 NEA Literature Fellowship winners -- one from each state -- who paint a vivid portrait of the U.S. in the last decades of the 20th cent. They evoke the magnificent spectrum of people, places, and experiences that define America. Their biographies and personal narratives are stories in and of themselves, revealing each writer's own unique path to fulfill the call to write. The selections, which include a mix of poetry and prose, serve as inspiration to emerging writers and provide a glimpse of the tremendous vitality and diversity of contemporary American literature.

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Author: Cyrus R. K. Patell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192844725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 705

Book Description
An overview of US fiction since 1940 that explores the history of literary forms, the history of narrative forms, the history of the book, the history of media, and the history of higher education in the United States.

A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction

Author: David Seed
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781444310115
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 608

Book Description
Through a wide-ranging series of essays and relevant readings, A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction presents an overview of American fiction published since the conclusion of the First World War. Features a wide-ranging series of essays by American, British, and European specialists in a variety of literary fields Written in an approachable and accessible style Covers both classic literary figures and contemporary novelists Provides extensive suggestions for further reading at the end of each essay