Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-131) and index.
Contents
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Aesthetic readings of Chekhov's stories -- 2. Joyce's "Stories of my childhood" and cultural studies -- 3. Affects in Hemingway's Nick Adams sequence -- 4. O'Connor's Christian realism -- 5. Carver's dark view of things -- Afterword -- Works cited -- Index -- About the author.