Titel: | A history of the American short story |
Titelzusatz: | genres - developments - model interpretations |
Mitwirkende: | Basseler, Michael [HerausgeberIn] |
| Nünning, Ansgar [HerausgeberIn] |
Verf.angabe: | Michael Basseler and Ansgar Nünning (eds.) |
Verlagsort: | Trier |
Verlag: | WVT, Wiss. Verl. Trier |
E-Jahr: | 2011 |
Jahr: | c 2011 |
Umfang: | X, 433 S. |
Gesamttitel/Reihe: | WVT-Handbücher zum literaturwissenschaftlichen Studium ; Bd. 14 |
Fussnoten: | Literaturangaben |
Ang. zum Inhalt: | 1. Introduction: Features, objectives, and premises of "A history of the American short story" / Michael Basseler, Ansgar Nünning |
| 4. Early American short narratives: The art of story-telling prior to Washington Irving / Oliver Scheiding, Martin Seidl |
| 10. Feminist voices around 1900: Kate Chopin's "Désirée's baby" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wall-paper" / Gabrielle Rippl |
| 16. Classics of the African American short story: Richard Wright's "The man who lived underground" and James Baldwin's "Going to meet the man" / Martin Lüthe |
| 22. Minimalism and the return to realism in the 1970s and 1980s: Raymond Carver's "Why don't you dance?" and "Cathedral" / Julia Breitbach |
| 2. A brief survey of this "History of the American short story" / Michael Basseler |
| 3. Theories and typologies of the short story / Michael Basseler |
| 5. Stories of the puritan legacy: Myth and allegory in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and "Rappaccinni's daughter" / Werner Reinhart |
| 6. Tales of detection and deterioration: Edgar Allan Poe's "The murders in the rue morgue" and "The fall of the house of Usher" / Erik Redling |
| 7. Between romance and realism: 'Twice-told' urban gothic in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the scrivener" and the related mid-19th-century narratives of modern city life / Ingo Berensmeyer, Martin Spies |
| 8. The rise of local-color writing in the American west: Bret Harte's "The outcasts of Poker Flat" and Mark Twain's "The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County" / Holger Kersten |
| 9. Anti-war stories, horror stories, and tall tales: Ambrose Bierce's "An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge" and "Oil of dog" / Robert Vogt |
| 11. The beginnings of the modernist short story of consciousness: Henry James's "The beast in the jungle" / Simon Cooke |
| 12. Anti-plot stories and stories of initiation: Sherwood Anderson's "Mother" and "I want to know why" / Michael Basseler, Ansgar Nünning |
| 13. Naturalistic short stories: Stephen Crane's "The open boat" and John Steinbeck's "The chrysanthemums" / Oliver Scheiding |
| 14. Short stories of the 1920s and 1930s between tradition and innovation: F. Scott Fitzgerald's "May day" and Ernest Hemingway's "The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Kurt Müller |
| 15. Modernist short stories between the regional and the universal: William Faulkner's "Dry september" and Eudora Welty's "Petrified man" / Thomas Claviez |
| 17. New directions in the post-war American short story: J. D. Salinger's Gladwaller-trilogy and Bernard Malamud's "The mourners" / Susanne Rohr |
| 18. Middle-class life in the (realist) short story: John Cheever's "The enormous radio" and John Updike's "The music school" / Eva-Sabine Zehelein |
| 19. Stories of female initiation: Flannery O'Connor's "Good country people" and Joyce Carol Oates's "How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again" / Ina Bergmann |
| 20. Experimental short fictions of the 1960s: Thomas Pynchon's "Entropy" and Robert Coover's "The babysitter" / René Dietrich, Mirjam Horn |
| 21. Postmodernist metafiction: John Barth's "Lost in the funhouse" and Donald Barthelme's "The glass mountain" and "The balloon" / Jochen Achilles |
| 23. Overcoming borders in native American and Canadian first nations short stories: Simon Ortiz' "Howbah Indians" and Thomas King's "Borders" / Wolfgang Hochbruck |
| 24. New directions in the American short story of the 1990s: (Multi-)Ethnic identity in Sandra Cisnero's "Never marry a Mexican" and Bharati Mukherjee's "The middleman" / Antje Kley |
| 25. New directions in the American short story after 9/11: Don DeLillo's "Baader-Meinhof" and Nicole Krauss's "Future emergencies" / Astrid Böger |
ISBN: | 3-86821-302-3 |
| 978-3-86821-302-7 |
URL: | Inhaltsverzeichnis ; Verlag: http://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/664302084.pdf |
| Rezension: http://ifb.bsz-bw.de/bsz346382157rez-1.pdf |
| Verlag: http://wvttrier.de/top/Beschreibungen/ID1183.html |
Schlagwörter: | (g)USA / (s)Kurzgeschichte / (z)Geschichte |
| (g)USA / (s)Kurzgeschichte / (z)Geschichte |
Dokumenttyp: | Aufsatzsammlung |
Sprache: | eng |
RVK-Notation: | HR 1820 |
K10plus-PPN: | 664302084 |
Verknüpfungen: | → Übergeordnete Aufnahme |
¬A¬ history of the American short story / Basseler, Michael [HerausgeberIn]; c 2011