Modern American short story sequences composite fictions and fictive communities

Originally published in 1995, this book gathers together eleven full-length essays on important American short story sequences of the twentieth century. The introduction by J. Gerald Kennedy elucidates problems of defining the genre, cites notable instances of the form (such as Sherwood Anderson...

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Weitere Verfasser: Kennedy, J. Gerald 1947- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1995
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  • Henry James's incipient poetics of the short story sequence : The finer grain (1910) Richard A. Hocks Toomer's Cane as narrative sequence Linda Wagner-Martin Hemingway's In our time : the biography of a book Michael Reynolds Wright writing reading : narrative strategies in Uncle Tom's children John Lowe The African-American voice in Faulkner's Go down, Moses John Carlos Rowe Meditations on nonpresence : re-visioning the short story in Eudora Welty's The wide net Susan V. Donaldson Nine stories : J.D. Salinger's linked mysteries Ruth Prigozy Cheever's Shady Hill : a suburban sequence Scott Donaldson John Updike's Olinger stories : new light among the shadows Robert M. Luscher Louise Erdrich's Love medicine : narrative communities and the short story sequence Hertha D. Wong From Anderson's Winesburg to Carver's Cathedral : the short story sequence and the semblance of community J. Gerald Kennedy