American Short Story Handbook

Informationen zum Autor James Nagel is the Eidson Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia and a Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College, USA. He is President of the Society for the Study of the American Short Story and Former President of the International Ernest Hemingway Society. Early in his career he founded the scholarly journal Studies in American Fiction and the widely influential series Critical Essays on American Literature, which published 156 volumes of scholarship. Among his twenty-three books are Stephen Crane and Literary Impressionism (1980), Hemingway in Love and War (1989, which was made into a Hollywood film starring Sandra Bullock), The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle (2001), Anthology of The American Short Story (2007), The Blackwell Companion to the American Short Story (Wiley Blackwell, 2010), and Race and Culture in Stories of New Orleans (2014). He has been a Fulbright Professor as well as a Rockefeller Fellow. He has published some eighty articles in the field and lectured on American literature in fifteen countries. Klappentext The American Short Story Handbook is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the topic that is designed to illuminate an important literary genre that has been given short scholarly shrift over the last century. Written by a renowned literary scholar in accessible and engaging prose for students at all levels, it provides an historical overview of the topic, as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories. The author examines the literary history of the genre from Benjamin Franklin's "The Speech of Miss Polly Baker" in 1747 to Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" in 1819 to "The Joy Luck Club" (1989). He covers the intellectual and historical conditions that contributed to the stories of each age, the ideas and themes that emerged in the movement, and the artistic means of expression common to the era. The book includes a selection of writers chosen not only for their contributions of individual stories but for their bodies of work that advanced the boundaries of short fiction. The selected writers, including Edgar Allen Poe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tim O'Brien, represent the chronological flow of the form, both genders, and a variety of ethnicities and nationalities. The final section of the book offers detailed exegesis of 30 great individual stories. With a glossary of important terms and a bibliography for further study, this is a seminal introduction that will expand and challenge readers' understanding of the American short story. Zusammenfassung This is a concise yet comprehensive treatment of the American short story that includes an historical overview of the topic as well as discussion of notable American authors and individual stories, from Benjamin Franklin s The Speech of Miss Polly Baker in 1747 to The Joy Luck Club . Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface viiPart 1 Introduction 1Part 2 Historical Overview of the American Short Story 9The American Story to Washington Irving 12The Age of Romanticism 20Realism and Naturalism 26American Modernism 39The Contemporary American Short Story 46Part 3 Notable Authors of American Short Stories 55Washington Irving 57Edgar Allan Poe 62Nathaniel Hawthorne 67Herman Melville 71Mark Twain 76Bret Harte 82Henry James 86Kate Chopin 91Stephen Crane 96O. Henry 101Sarah Orne Jewett 105Charles W. Chesnutt 109Willa Cather 115F. Scott Fitzgerald 120Ernest Hemingway 126John Steinbeck 132William Faulkner 139Jamaica Kincaid 144Tim O'Brien 150Louise Erdrich 156Part 4 Great American Short Stories 163Benjamin Franklin, "The Speech of Polly Baker" 165Ruri Colla, "The Story of the Captain's Wife and an Aged Woman" 168Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle" 172Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown" 177Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado" 180Herman Me...

List of contents

Preface vii
 
Part 1 Introduction 1
 
Part 2 Historical Overview of the American Short Story 9
 
The American Story to Washington Irving 12
 
The Age of Romanticism 20
 
Realism and Naturalism 26
 
American Modernism 39
 
The Contemporary American Short Story 46
 
Part 3 Notable Authors of American Short Stories 55
 
Washington Irving 57
 
Edgar Allan Poe 62
 
Nathaniel Hawthorne 67
 
Herman Melville 71
 
Mark Twain 76
 
Bret Harte 82
 
Henry James 86
 
Kate Chopin 91
 
Stephen Crane 96
 
O. Henry 101
 
Sarah Orne Jewett 105
 
Charles W. Chesnutt 109
 
Willa Cather 115
 
F. Scott Fitzgerald 120
 
Ernest Hemingway 126
 
John Steinbeck 132
 
William Faulkner 139
 
Jamaica Kincaid 144
 
Tim O'Brien 150
 
Louise Erdrich 156
 
Part 4 Great American Short Stories 163
 
Benjamin Franklin, "The Speech of Polly Baker" 165
 
Ruri Colla, "The Story of the Captain's Wife and an Aged Woman" 168
 
Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle" 172
 
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown" 177
 
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado" 180
 
Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener" 184
 
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, "The Two Offers" 189
 
Hamlin Garland, "Under the Lion's Paw" 192
 
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" 196
 
Henry James, "The Real Thing" 202
 
Kate Chopin, "Désirée's Baby" 206
 
Ambrose Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" 210
 
Stephen Crane, "The Blue Hotel" 214
 
Frank Norris, "A Deal in Wheat" 218
 
Edith Wharton, "The Other Two" 222
 
Willa Cather, "A Wagner Matinée" 226
 
Jack London, "To Build a Fire" 230
 
Jean Toomer, "Blood-Burning Moon" 233
 
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Babylon Revisited" 236
 
Ernest Hemingway, "Indian Camp" 241
 
John Steinbeck, "The Chrysanthemums" 245
 
Eudora Welty, "Petrified Man" 249
 
William Faulkner, "Barn Burning" 253
 
Flannery O'Connor, "The River" 257
 
Tillie Olsen, "Help Her to Believe" ["I Stand Here Ironing"] 261
 
Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" 265
 
Louise Erdrich, "The Red Convertible" 269
 
Susan Minot, "Hiding" 273
 
Amy Tan, "The Joy Luck Club" 277
 
Tim O'Brien, "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" 281
 
Jamaica Kincaid, "Columbus in Chains" 285
 
Judith Cofer, "Nada" 289
 
A Glossary for the Study of the American Short Story 293
 
Selected Books for Further Study of the American Short Story 303
 
Index 307

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"A stunning contribution by an acknowledged master of the study of the genre. With a superb introduction, choice of stories, and scholarly support, Nagel's new volume will the first choice for any reader. This is the definitive collection and handbook on the American short story."--Jeanne Reesman, University of Texas at San Antonio
"This new Handbook offers a valuable overview of the American short story with attention to individual authors and masterpieces as well as to the historical development of the form. There is no scholar who knows more about the short story in the United States than James Nagel, and students will find this book to be reliable, informative, and illuminating."--Alfred Bendixen, Princeton University
 
"A brilliant chronological mapping of the largely ignored genre of the American short story, by one of the master scholars of American literature. Generous in its historical inclusiveness and rich contextualization, this is far more than a "Handbook." It will stand for some time as the definitive work in the field as it establishes the emerging tradition and the canon of the American short story."--Gloria Cronin, Brigham Young University

Product details

• Authors: Nagel, J Nagel, James Nagel, James (University of Georgia Nagel, Nagel James
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.02.2015
• EAN: 9780470655412
• ISBN: 978-0-470-65541-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Blackwell Literature Handbooks; Wiley Blackwell Literature Han; Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks; Blackwell Literature Handbooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, Amerikanische Literatur, Literaturkritik, Kurzgeschichte, Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, USA /Literatur, Literaturgeschichte, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literaturkritik u. -geschichte, Literary Criticism & History, American Literature