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The American Short Story Handbook

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By (author): James Nagel

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 Franklins The Speech of Miss Polly Baker in 1747 to The Joy Luck Club.

  • Includes a selection of writers chosen not only for their contributions of individual stories but for bodies of work that advanced the boundaries of short fiction, including Washington Irving, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tim OBrien
  • Addresses the ways in which American oral storytelling and other narrative traditions were integral to the formation and flourishing of the short story genre
  • Written in accessible and engaging prose for students at all levels by a renowned literary scholar to illuminate an important genre that has received short shrift in scholarly literature of the last century
  • Includes a glossary defining the most common terms used in literary history and in critical discussions of fiction, and a bibliography of works for further study
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Product Details
  • Weight: 408g
  • Dimensions: 150 x 226mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Feb 2015
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780470655429

About James Nagel

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.

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