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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...
